# Building a PC from scratch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-pc-from-scratch/602866>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 14, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-pc-from-scratch/602866 "2011-11-14T05:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-pc-from-scratch/602866/41 "2011-11-21T22:16:25Z")

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> [@Consensus](#):
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> Are you talking about the boot sequence? You can easily change these settings in the BIOS, you don’t need to unplug the floppy drive to not have it in the boot sequence.  
> But it is always a good idea to have a device other then the HDD to boot from first. What used to be the floppy drive is now usually the cd/dvd drive, so that whenever you OS or HDD won’t start up anymore you can always start up with a bootable cd/dvd.

Yeah, I got into the BIOS and adjusted the boot sequence, to hit the CD drive first (where I had the Windows install disk), and because it had to have a second spot had the HDD after that. But no matter what I did in the BIOS settings, and what was displayed in the boot sequence, it kept hitting the floppy drive, and wouldn’t go back to the CD drive. So the only workaround I found was to physically unplug the floppy drive. Not like I ever actually use the thing.

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