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Just confirm your suggest. You are correct. However, older bios may not have this option.

As your PC is booting, press the F2 key for many PCs. If F2 does not work perhaps F12. Do this early in the boot cycle. Sometimes I have had to press F2 several times during boot to go into the BIOS. Once there, you will have to search for your Optical drive and using the instruction in the BIOS open the drive specs. There should be info there on how to change. If this or drivers does not help you may have to replace the Optical drive.

What if you disconnect the CD drive and only show the DVD? Seems to me that Windows shouldn’t care if it’s a CD or DVD drive!

Hello all
I have an old Dell Generation 4 XPS with Vista Ultimate installed. I would like to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. My boot sequence is CD then HD. I do have a DVD drive but am unable to change the bios to boot from the DVD. Before I try doing the upgrade, I would like to know if there are any work arounds since I can’t boot from the DVD. I ran the upgrade advisor and it said my machine was compatible with Windows 7. Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike Destefano