

In some motherboard versions some other keys can be used to launch BIOS settings, for example, F2 or F4. To get to those settings you need to press Del key when booting your computer (before starting the operating system). Below we will tell you what has to be done in such cases, but now let’s take a look at the standard use of the Boot device priority.Īs you can see, the Boot device priority menu is located in BIOS (UEFI) settings.

There are situations when this menu is called differently, which makes it difficult to find it. To set boot priority in BIOS, you need to use the Boot device priority menu. What has to be done in case there is no Boot device priority in BIOS How to set boot priority in BIOS (UEFI) 2. I am not able to use my laptop as I've messed up badly.Table of contents: 1. Also it has folders like rEFInd Microsoft etc. I checked in GParted (launched from Karora live USB) that my EFI partition is still intact and has boot flag. It did not find any Windows 8 installation :( although I have it on my C:\ Total identified Windows installations: 0

Successfully scanned Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while. Scanning all disks for Windows installations. I went to BIOS to check the boot order I did not see any boot option entries like "Windows Boot Manager", rEFInd, etc.Īt least to get Windows 8 working I followed approach of rebuilding bcd like below with no luck. But when I reboot the system neither Karora nor Windows 8 is booting. I was unable to boot Karora Linux in UEFI mode hence I enabled Legacy BIOS mode and installed Karora successfully. Everything was going fine until I decided to install Karora Linux. I installed Linux Mint 15 dual boot and got it working with the Boot-Repair utility. I have Asus N56D laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed in EFI mode.
