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Dec 16^th, 2009 at 2:09pm

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Hello,
Maybe somebody here can help me. I have a Western Digital External Hard drive I just installed (plugged in) to my machine at work. When I boot the machine with the external drive plugged (usb), it hangs, it goes through the boot sequence and right before it usually starts windows, it says something like " press any key to boot from device, (I think). Looks like when it is plugged in it is trying to boot from the external drive.

If I unplug it and reboot, I can then plug the USB External into the machine and it notices then recognizes it. I can deal with that but would like it to boot normally with the external connected all the time.

I googled around and found I might need to change a setting in the BIOS? If anybody can help me with what i need to do, it would greatly be appreciated... Thanks!

Dave

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2009 at 3:53pm

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Have a look at your boot priority settings in the bios?

My specs
I7920 4ghz
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
6gb Corsair DDR3 1600
BFG GTX285OCX
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Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2009 at 4:51pm

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I see your situation, but do you have you OS on your external, or not?

If not, then just plug it in once your computer is booted already. It will recognize it as a normal external drive, and not as a boot drive.

Though you most likely already know that, so if you do, then I can't say much more Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2009 at 5:59pm

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Posted by: The Snake 87 Posted on: Today at 4:51pm
I see your situation, but do you have you OS on your external, or not?
If not, then just plug it in once your computer is booted already. It will recognize it as a normal external drive, and not as a boot drive.
Though you most likely already know that, so if you do, then I can't say much more

Yes, I forgot to tell you I can do that, it recognises the external once booted. I need to recognize it automatically every time I boot the machine.

I spoke with Nick and he agreed, check the priority boot sequence in the BIOS. Will do tomorrow. Thanks!

Dave

Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor 965, 4.2GHz/8MB L3 Cache, Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel X58 Chipset Cross
Fire & SLI Supported, Mushkin Redline 6GB (3X2GB) Memory, eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, Vista 64.

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