how to boot toshiba techra R940 from CD?

google says press f8 on power up but that is not working. any ideas? thanks.

tried f8, f12. I think f8 use to work on win7. windows 10 on here now and those keys don't seem to work.

Booting into BIOS setup utility nothing to do with Windows operating system does your computer display which key to press to boot into BIOS setup utility?

does not show any keys to press for BIOS. use too when windows 7 was on here Im pretty sure.

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this says press f2. which also did not work. (another google search)

Toshiba Tecra boot to BIOS
Entering BIOS in Toshiba Tecra & Toshiba Satellite

Turn off your Toshiba laptop.
Wait 30 seconds and turn your laptop back on.
Press F2 key repetitively as soon as the Toshiba laptop begins booting until the BIOS menu screen appears.

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found this but Select UEFI Firmware Settings is not there... ?

How to Enter the BIOS on a Windows 10 PC

Navigate to settings. You can get there by clicking the gear icon on the Start menu.
Select Update & security.
Select Recovery from the left menu.
Click Restart Now under Advanced startup. ...
Click Troubleshoot.
Click Advanced options.
Select UEFI Firmware Settings. ...
Click Restart.

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got it. this works. its different in windows 10 than win 7

How to Enter the BIOS on a Windows 10 PC

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I was able to get to Bios. still cant get the boot from CD to work. trying to boot a linux CD which I know works

Restart the computer and the instant you see the Toshiba logo, start tapping the F12 key. If this doesn't work, go into the BIOS setup, look for "Boot Order" or "Boot Configuration" and change the boot order so that the CD drive is above the hard drive. Be sure to save the change when exiting the setup screen.

Ben

which option here would be for the CD DVD drive?

hdd/sdd
usb memory
eSATA hdd
odd
usb odd
fdd
lan (its not this I know).

"odd" apparently stands for "Optical Disc Drive". Move that to the top. Be sure to save the change. You change it back afterwards if you want.

Ben

ODD is the CD drive. and I see was I was doing wrong. I was not changing the order of the boot items. lol. thanks. more rusty on this stuff than I thought. :)