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Boot order

Boot order

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Boot order

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- When you fire up your system, the first thing it does is a power on self-test. But once it does a power on self-test, it's going to be looking for a storage device, with an installed operating system from which to boot. So in this episode, I want to talk about the boot order, in particular on a system where you have lots of storage devices. So let's take a look at the system I got here. So starting way over here, I've got a couple of traditional hard disk drives. Now really close to me right here, I've got a two and a half inch SSD, And then coming down here in front of the SSD, this is optical media. Which by the way, just uses a regular SATA connection like any other SATA device, no big deal there. And on top of that, I've got an M.2 on the other side of this motherboard. But if you look here on the very, very top, you're going to see I've got a USB thumb drive. On this one system, I've got two hard disc drives,…

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