Startup Menu - Lenovo 32597CU User Manual

Table 5. Security menu items (continued)
Menu item

Startup menu

You might need to change the startup sequence of your computer. For example, if you have different
operating systems on different devices, you can have the system start up from either of them.
Attention: After you change your startup sequence, you must be extremely careful not to specify a wrong
device during a copy, a save, or a format operation. If you specify a wrong device, your data and programs
might be erased or overwritten.
Attention: If you are using the BitLocker
BitLocker drive encryption detects the change of startup sequence and locks the computer from booting.
Changing the startup sequence
Selecting Startup to display the Boot submenu.
To change the startup sequence, do the following:
1. Select Boot; then press Enter.
You can use the Boot submenu to specify the startup sequence that runs when you turn on the power.
Refer to "Boot submenu" on page 103.
2. Select the device you want to start first.
3. Press F10 to save the changes and restart the system.
To change the startup sequence temporarily so that the system starts up from a different drive, do the
following:
1. Turn off the computer.
2. Turn on the computer; then, while the message "To interrupt normal startup, press Enter" is displayed in
the lower left corner of the screen, press F12.
3. Select the device you want to start first from the Boot menu.
Note: The Boot menu will be displayed when the operating system is not found or when the computer
cannot boot from any devices.
Boot submenu
The following list, showing the order in which devices will be started up, is always displayed. Even devices
that are not attached to or installed on your computer are listed. For each device that is attached to or
installed on the computer, information about it is presented after the colon.
1. USB CD:
2. USB FDD:
3. ATAPI CD0:
4. ATAPI CD1:
5. ATA HDD2:
Submenu item
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drive encryption, you should not change the startup sequence.
Selection
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Comments
Note: If you set the
Computrace module
activation to Permanently
Disabled, you will be
unable to enable this
setting again.
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Advanced configuration
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