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Daft Question But Very Decisive

I Am Very new to Linux and very wary about making the switch , i have heard about live cds but im not sure about changing the boot order in the bios setup

i currently run A Vista Home Premium Laptop with the following specs:

Acer ASPIRE 5720

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5250 1.5Ghz , 667Mhz FSB , 2MB L2 Cache

2038 MB RAM

160 hdd

15..4 Inch LCD With Mobile Intel graphics Up to 358MB

Built In wireless B/G

dvd burner

if i change the boot order do i have to change it back to run windows ? will it affect vista in any way?

Partner Will Kill me if it goes wrong

Thanks for your help

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Best Rodrigo Donado (frezeeer) said : 		#1

Hi:

If you change the boot order, what will happend is that the computer will look for staring disk in someother places.
instead of looking right in the HD, it will look in the CD/DVD, if there is a bootable disk there, it will boot, if not, it will go onto the next option, in your case(and in most cases the HD, and there it will find windows (again in your case)
so the only notizable thing will be a little delay when starting.
Bootorder is reversable, you are not changing anything.
Good luck with your partner, sometimes thats is worst than computers.... jejeje

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Álvaro del Olmo Alonso (dllum) said : 		#2

Don't fear to make the change. As Rodrigo says, you can always revert this as it was before. When you had installed Linux you may want to revert the boot order, but nowadays, since it is more common to use a live CD than a floppy disk, there is no problem to leave the CD/DVD as first device to boot if you have the HD drive set as second in the list. I have right this configuration in my laptop.

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Jay(reallyRubbishwithcomputers)stewart (sheldinho8) said : 		#3

Thanks Rodrigo Donado, that solved my question.