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Making both optical drives bootable

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wgrimsley

wgrimsley

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Jan 26, 2005
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Dell Dimension 4700
I have a Pioneer DVD writer and a CD writer on my IDE channel. My 2 hard drives are SATA.
I would like to have both the DVD writer and the CD writer made bootable. Currently only the drive in the master position is bootable. The BIOS is set to boot from the CD/DVD first. I have tried different jumper settings but to no avail. Is it possible to make both optical drives bootable?
 
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Think this must depend on your mobo/bios. On my Asus, it will try to boot from both optical drives.
 
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