Re: Can not boot once USB 2.0 external hard drive installed on Windows XP
From: Peter (peterf41_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/05/04
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 05:54:02 -0500
If you don't have operating system files on the USB drive (such as your OS
per se) you shouldn't have a problem booting with it on; i have one and
sometimes i forget during re-boot and leave it running and it boots just
fine....I don't think you can install XP on an external USB drive anyway, so
i would guess that is not your problem..
SHut it off after your machine shut down (or before) and leave it off until
your system is booted, that is what i do..Don't know what else to tell you..
"Rudy Davis" <rudavis@cisco.com> wrote in message
news:717301c4023b$2b941eb0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I installed an external Western Digital in an external USB
> 2.0 case to
> my Compaq computer yesterday. The hard drive (once
> formatted) works
> fine once I plug it into the system and I can use it as an
> extra drive
> which is great.
>
> However if I "REBOOT" the Windows XP machine, it hangs
> after memory
> test and will not continue to boot. If I unplug or
> poweroff the
> external USB 2.0 hard drive, booting continues fine.
>
> The guy below had exactly the same problem as me back in
> 2002 but I
> did not see any replies.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thank you,
> Rudy
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> From: Anthony Bertorelli (shadowman2001@earthlink.net)
> Subject: Maxtor USB hard drive problem
> This is the only article in this thread
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> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
> Date: 2002-01-11 18:40:11 PST
>
>
> I recently purchased an external USB hard drive for
> backup purposes.
> The USB drive is actually USB2, but it is backward
> compatable with
> the
> older standard. I'm not really concerned about speed, as
> this is
> a
> backup drive.
>
> The problem is, if the USB hard drive is connected to the
> computer,
> the computer will not boot. It will hang at the end of
> the memory
> test. I have tried several different USB ports, I've
> looked
> through
> various settings in my BIOS, and have even formatted the
> drive with
> NTFS (I'm using Windows XP).
>
> The hard drive *does* work, I just have to disconnect it
> from the
> computer whenever I have to reboot. Then when the computer
> boots,
> reconnect the external drive. Is this normal? I'd like to
> leave it
> connected to the computer if I can.
>
> I can't find anything on Maxtor's Knowledge Base, and
> nothing remotely
> coming close on Google's archive. Any insights will be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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