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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n6trf wrote:
> 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
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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" <n6trf@arrl.net> wrote in message
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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
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
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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
Set your BIOS not to boot from USB (change boot order)
"n6trf" <n6trf@arrl.net> wrote in message
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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
>
>
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 Andersen wrote:
> "n6trf" <n6trf@arrl.net> crashed Echelon writing
> news:u7OPzt2cIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
>
>> 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
>
> Set your BIOS not to boot from USB (change boot order)
>
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 wrote:
> "n6trf" <n6trf@arrl.net> wrote in message
> news:u7OPzt2cIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>>
> 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.
>
>
See my post, I do get to winxp, but slow and doesn't work right, forget
the details.
Dave Cohen
Dave Cohen <user@example.net> crashed Echelon writing
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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.
usb drive while booting 
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