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I cannot get my Acer 2300 laptop to boot from the Recovery CD.
I've made the appropriate change in the BIOS so that the laptop boots up with (a) CD , (b) Floppy, (c) Network, and (d) Harddrive.
However, the unit continues to boot up from the harddrive.

Any advise would be much appreciated.

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As describes, the machine keeps booting the hard drive despite BIOS changes and has suggested changing the boot order. Beyond order, the usual culprits are a non‑bootable recovery disc, a faulty optical drive, or a BIOS that ignores the CD unless explicitly chosen at startup. The steps below target those gaps.

  • Confirm the recovery disc is truly bootable: try it in another PC. If it does not boot elsewhere it was burned as a data disc (not as a bootable image) or the image is corrupt. Recreate the disc using the "burn image/ISO" option and finalise the disc.
  • Confirm the laptop will boot from any known-good boot CD (Linux live CD or Windows install disc). If the 2300 refuses all bootable CDs the optical drive or its connection may be bad; cleaning the lens or replacing the drive is the next step.
  • Use the one-time boot menu at power-on (common on Acer models) to select the CD drive directly. Inserting the disc before powering up and choosing the drive from that menu often bypasses BIOS-priority quirks.
  • If the BIOS insists on keeping the hard drive high in the list and the CD still won’t boot, temporarily disconnect the hard drive (power removed, battery out) to force the system to boot the CD. Only attempt hardware access if comfortable doing so.
  • If a hidden recovery partition exists, the manufacturer recovery tool (model dependent) can sometimes restore without a CD—check the service manual for the correct hotkey.

Backup personal files before any recovery. If these steps fail, obtain official recovery media from Acer or a working replacement optical drive.

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Change the boot to just cd then HDD.

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For some reason, the settings require all 4 items to be present (cd, floppy, network, and HDD) but not necessarily in that order. I had previously tried to remove "floppy" and "network" but was unable to; hence the reason for moving HDD to the bottom of the list.

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well make it cd then hdd then floppy then network.

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I'm pretty sure I tried this before but I'll try it again and will let you know.

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