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Alternative way to boot to CD?
My Asus mobo has very unresponsive firmware. It takes next to forever for the first menu to appear, and what's more, it periodically forgets its settings and reverts to default.
So, this morning my Windows boot got borked, and I wanted to run a live CD in order to fix it or to do a system image restore.
Is there an alternative way to coax my computer into booting from the CD drive, without accessing the firmware menus?
I tried switching the SATA cables, but it still recognized my borked hard drive and threw an error. I tried disconnecting the hard drive, and that works, but then when I reconnect it, the rescue environment doesn't see it, so I still can't fix it.
Any ideas, besides replacing the mobo?