usb drive while booting

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If I have a USB drive connected when booting, the system will not boot. Acts
different with a thumb drive & a freeagent Seagate drive. But either one
causes a boot failure. Anyone got any ideas? TIA
 
Patient (demonstrating): "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Don't do that."

Don't do that.
 
PA Bear said:
Patient (demonstrating): "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Don't do that."

Don't do that.
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Yep...I agree.
Once in a while I see a machine that simply will not boot with certain USB
devices attached...
so we simply don't plug them in until the machine has booted up
 
n6trf said:
If I have a USB drive connected when booting, the system will not boot.
Acts different with a thumb drive & a freeagent Seagate drive. But either
one causes a boot failure. Anyone got any ideas? TIA
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Yes, this happens sometimes.

It may be a problem with the port on the motherboard, which isn't very
fixable, or with the BIOS, which may be updatable; but in any case, you just
need to disconnect those drives while rebooting.


HTH
-pk
 
If I have a USB drive connected when booting, the system will not
boot. Acts different with a thumb drive & a freeagent Seagate drive.
But either one causes a boot failure. Anyone got any ideas? TIA
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Set your BIOS not to boot from USB (change boot order)
 
n6trf said:
If I have a USB drive connected when booting, the system will not boot.
Acts different with a thumb drive & a freeagent Seagate drive. But either
one causes a boot failure. Anyone got any ideas? TIA
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This has often been blamed on Windows XP, but in my opinion it is a problem
with some BIOSs (as the issue occurs before Windows even speculates on the
possibility of loading). IMHO it occurs because the BIOS thinks that the
external media is bootable when in fact it isn't and just sits and sulks
that it can't find a Master Boot Record.
 
Bjarke said:
Set your BIOS not to boot from USB (change boot order)
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No, my machine doesn't have usb boot capability. My first Sandisk Cruzer
Micro caused problems, later micros (the nice ones that retract) seem
ok. Didn't see a problem with a pny unit.
Dave Cohen
 
M.I.5¾ said:
This has often been blamed on Windows XP, but in my opinion it is a problem
with some BIOSs (as the issue occurs before Windows even speculates on the
possibility of loading). IMHO it occurs because the BIOS thinks that the
external media is bootable when in fact it isn't and just sits and sulks
that it can't find a Master Boot Record.
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See my post, I do get to winxp, but slow and doesn't work right, forget
the details.
Dave Cohen
 
No, my machine doesn't have usb boot capability. My first Sandisk Cruzer
Micro caused problems, later micros (the nice ones that retract) seem
ok. Didn't see a problem with a pny unit.
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So you are the OP?
 
See my post, I do get to winxp, but slow and doesn't work right, forget
the details.
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Which post, in this thread you only have 2 posts not explaining anything.
 
Dave Cohen said:
See my post, I do get to winxp, but slow and doesn't work right, forget
the details.
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That's because you never gave any. Your only other post never mentioned
anything about XP.
 
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