XP Hangs on boot w/new USB external drive

[guysullivan]

Can anyone help? I have just purchased a ner western digital USB external
HDD and cannot start up when it is connected. I am running XP and it hangs
on boot when the new drive is pluged/in.

 

[dg]

One idea, that may be wrong, is that your bios is set to boot from usb
external device and is just choking when it tries to boot from the
non-bootable drive. Thats the direction I would head first. Just make sure
your bios settings say to boot from your XP drive and nothing else, that
will eliminate the boot drive mix-up possibility.

--dan


--Dan

 

[guysullivan]

Thanks Dan, but I have tried every boot sequence I can think of. My BIOS
screen is pretty simple. I did try just the main HDD with all others
disabled, still no luck. The external hard drive works if you plug it in
after start up. The problem I am having is: I have Ghost 2003 and to
complete a back-up it needs to restart. Which it won't do with the USB
external drive connected. I can still use the USB drive but hate to waste
the 49 bucks for the microsoft ghost 2003 program...any other ideas out
there...thanks...-GS-

 

[Peter]

Can you create and try to use DOS boot disk with USB support from Ghost
Wizard?

 

[Tod]

Could it be that Ghost is the problem ?

 

[guysullivan]

No it's not ghost as it hangs with out using ghost. Unless there's a way to
backup or clone without having to restart.

 

[guysullivan]

I'll give it a try tomorrow, will this tell me something?