Select boot device key on Sony Vaios

Posted on July 21, 2010 by johnny

Most BIOSes nowadays have a feature whereby pressing a specific F key brings up a one-time boot device selection menu, handy for operating system (re)installs. The BIOS on my new Vaio didn’t display any information regarding keys (not even how to get into the BIOS). After blindly trying escape and del, F2 got me into the BIOS. There was no one-time boot option in the BIOS so I did a google search. A random post in a random thread said to try F11, which cycles the boot device through the available media.

I was trying to boot from USB: the first time I pressed F11 during boot the laptop tried booting from the empty CD drive. The second time (I can’t remember if the laptop rebooted itself, or if I had to) I pressed F11 it successfully booted from the USB.

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Computers have interested me since I can remember and conveniently I'm now studying a computer science degree. This is where I post solutions to problems I've had in the office or any other project, hopefully clearly enough to refer back to in the future.
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8 Responses to Select boot device key on Sony Vaios

  1. Alex says:
    March 18, 2011 at %I:%M %p

    Thank u!

  2. Sidd says:
    May 5, 2011 at %I:%M %p

    Really, this helped me save a LOT of time.
    I wanted to Install xp booted from usb and the BIOS was locked, tried ways to unlock it but that needed the serial number which was not there!
    Thanks a lot

  3. Andrei says:
    May 15, 2011 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks from Romania. That help me with something ;)

  4. Daniel says:
    July 25, 2011 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks a million.

    This is what SONY should document in their website and/or the manual of the product!

  5. Manish says:
    November 5, 2011 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks.
    And just for information – F10 is starting the Vaio Rescue.

  6. Craig says:
    January 19, 2012 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks saved me alot of stuffing around.

  7. HosseinSam says:
    November 24, 2012 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks a lot, Its working

  8. Ganesh says:
    January 24, 2013 at %I:%M %p

    Thanks a Lot,

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