confused about boot priority

[4pbears]

i am about to build my first system using a z77 board. i am confused about which "boot priority" to use. in bios under "advanced" it seems i have 2 option to set boot priority. ist it seems i can select the optical drive to load windows using either under "boot priority" or under 1st, 2nd, ot 3rd boot priority. which one should i use? or can i say choose the optical drive under boot priority and put my main hard drive as the 1st hard drive? any help would be appreciated! i hope my explanations makes sense lol


                                                                                                                                                thanks;


                                                                                                                                                 dave

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Dave,

You will find a lot of settings are doubled up and you can find the same thing in more than one place. It doesn't matter which you use.

As for installing Windows I woulkd suggest setting the boot priority to your hard drive first and then when you want to boot from the optical drive for the installation just use the F12 key during booting to give you the boot options. This will be a one time choice and will revert back to the hard drive afterwards.