How to Boot an Acer Laptop SafetyDrill

Look at your libraries on your Acer laptop – all your files, receipts, invoices and contact information. Now imagine losing all of it. That is not a pretty picture for any business user. Larger organizations can afford an IT department with extravagant backup policies and offsite storage, but for some that isn’t an option. Purchasing an external hard drive from Maxtor gives you a cheaper option to keep your data safe. Simply connect your external drive to your laptop and boot to the SafetyDrill recovery disc provided with the drive. This utility will let you create, restore and sync backups to your external drive.

Connect your external hard drive to your computer and place the SafetyDrill boot CD into your computer’s optical drive. Restart the computer.

Press a key on your keyboard after the Acer logo displays on screen and you’re prompted with the text, “Press any key to boot from CD.” This should work for laptops with a default configuration.

Restart your computer again if the previous step failed and repeatedly press “F12” while the Acer logo appears on-screen. This loads a one-time boot menu. Select your optical drive from the list of devices and press “Enter.” Press a key on the keyboard when prompted to “Press any key to boot from CD.” If you can’t access the boot menu, you’ll need to change settings in the BIOS.

Restart your computer again and repeatedly press “F2” while the Acer logo appears on screen. This will load the BIOS setup utility. Locate the boot device list and move your optical drive to the top of the list. Exit the BIOS and save your changes. The computer will automatically restart after this and boot to your disc.