XPS15 boot dvd

I have a brand new XPS-15 (5550). I made a DVD recovery DVD using an external DVD writer, but I was not able to start. I found the article on https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN142679/EN/ so I followed to make a manual start option. The article tell me what needs to be in the file system of the add a Boot Option field list field.

I do not see DVD mentioned in the field, and I can't change the field - if I click on the existing text that is highlighted, it remains highlighted. If I try to remove it by using the delete key does nothing.

Is anyone able to tell me how to make a functional boot option?

Thank you

Mike

The system comes in UEFI mode - which means that a lot of old tools can have on hand only MUST NOT be used on the system - many are not support UEFI and can damage the files on the disk if used on the system.  UEFI stores some code on the disk itself - and it's the boot manager of Windows on the hard drive that boots the system.

If you create a bootable DVD UEFI or a flash drive, it should work for initiating the system - you will need to activate the inherited to boot from a DVD ROM BIOS option.  In general, it is much easier to have the tools stored on a flash drive and not a DVD - not only don't support UEFI boot from the flash drive, but the flash player can be updated when necessary, something that cannot be done with a DVD-ROM drive.

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