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burlmart
Explorer
Aug 08, 2014

Win 8.1 recovery ... BIOS does not see HD on Dell

The boot process now takes a minute vs maybe 20 sec before. The recovery disc Dell sent us worked strangely. The laptop came w/ W8, and I think Dell did something to their recovery media such that...
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Tom_M1
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Aug 13, 2014
Prior to retirement, all the PCs where I worked were Dell. About 200 of them. We had very few failures and those were most often hard drives.

The F2 key gets you to the BIOS settings where one of the items lets you set the boot order. The F12 just gives a list of drives from which you select to boot from. It does not change the boot order.

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