When you are in the BIOS boot order screen, you’ll see instructions for how to change the order. So if you have a UEFI hard drive along with a legacy hard drive, you can choose the boot order for all of the devices. Basically, the BIOS has all the UEFI and legacy boot options listed. For example, on my custom PC, I entered BIOS setup, then Settings and then Boot.Īs you can see from the list below, there are a whole lot of options. Sometimes going through setup will give you more options. On my custom machine, pressing F11 for the boot menu gets me to the following screen:Īs mentioned earlier, you can either go directly to the boot options like this or enter setup and then go to the boot section. Now I can just pick which device I want to boot from. If you don’t have any UEFI hard drives or devices on your computer, you’ll just see Windows Boot Manager.
If your computer is using legacy BIOS, make sure to press the key for boot options or boot order as that’ll get you right into the boot sequence screen.įor example, on my Dell machine, when I pressed F12 for Boot Options, I got the following screen:Īt the top, it tells me my boot mode is set to UEFI + Legacy and then it gives me Legacy Options and UEFI Options. Now that we figured out how to access the BIOS, let’s change the boot order in Windows. Note that if your BIOS is set to UEFI + Legacy BIOS, then you’ll be able to access both BIOS’s. You’ll instead have to boot using the legacy method by pressing the keys on startup. If you don’t see this option, that means your computer does not have an UEFI BIOS. On this last screen, you should see an option called UEFI Firmware Settings. Under the Troubleshoot heading, go ahead and choose Advanced Options. This will restart your computer and load the advanced recovery options screen. Then click on Recovery in the left-hand menu and then click on the Restart now button under Advanced startup. To restart Windows, click on Start and then Settings (gear icon). Instead, you have to restart Windows in a special way and then go through some menu options. UEFI BIOS cannot be accessed by pressing keys on the keyboard. Now if you don’t see this type of message popup at all when booting up, it could indicate that your BIOS is setup for UEFI only. On my Dell, I get a different set of keys for accessing the BIOS setup (F2) and Boot Options (F12). Since changing the boot order is such a common task, they usually have a separate key just for that (F11 in this case). Note that if you go into the BIOS setup, you’ll also be able to change the boot order from there too.
#Access boot order for windows on mac Pc#
The motherboard on my custom PC is from MSI, so the boot up process loads a MSI screen with the option to press DEL to run BIOS setup or press F11 to run the boot menu. Here are two examples from a Dell machine and a custom built machine I have at home: Usually, you will see a message quickly appear at the bottom telling you which keys to press. The first thing to do is go ahead and restart your computer and then to keep pressing one of the keys on the keyboard continually while the computer is booting up.
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