Toshiba Qosmio F60 - Manual (Page 153)

User’s Manual 7-3
Qosmio F60 Series
You can override the settings and manually select a boot device by
pressing one of the following keys while the computer is booting:
*1 The floppy diskette drive will be used to start the computer when there is
a bootable disk contained in the external drive. If SD memory card is
installed as well, the external floppy diskette drive will be checked first,
followed by the SD memory device itself.
*2 In this computer, CD-ROM refers to the Fixed optical disc drive. The
optical disc drive will be used to start the computer when there is a bootable
disk contained in the drive.
To change the boot drive, follow the steps below.
1. Hold down F12 and turn the computer on. When the Qosmio logo
screen appears, release the F12 key.
2. Use the up and down cursor keys to select the boot device you want
and press ENTER.
USB Memory BIOS Support Type
This option allows you to set the type of the USB memory to be used as a
startup device.
U Selects the USB floppy diskette drive *1 .
N Selects the network.
1 Selects the built-in hard disk drive.
C Selects the CD-ROM *2 .
M Selects the USB memory drive.
E Selects the eSATA HDD.
If a Supervisor Password has been set, manual boot device selection
functions may be restricted.
The boot device selection methods described above will not change the
boot priority settings that have been configured in HW Setup. In addition,
if you press a key other than one of those listed, or if the selected device is
not installed, the system will continue to boot according to the current and
available settings in HW Setup.
HDD Sets the USB memory to be the equivalent of a
hard disk drive (default). With this setting, the
USB memory device can be used to start the
computer as though it were a hard disk drive
based on the hard disk drive settings within both
the Boot Priority and HDD Priority options
detailed previously.