Ext. HDD cause boot problems?

Culinia · 20 Nov 2010 at 10:16

Was wondering if you guys could help me.

It only happens when my WD Elements drive is plugged in, when booting the computer it takes a long time to pass the post screen up to 1.5 mins sometimes - I'm assuming that is because it is scanning the Elements for some reason.

I have set the boot options in bios to cd, and hard drive with the others disabled i.e. no mention of removable disk.

Is there anyway to stop this without having to disconnect them everytime I turn on the computer? Thanks.

Culinia · 22 Nov 2010 at 14:21

*bump*

edscdk · 22 Nov 2010 at 14:27

had this before with external drives, I installed an £8 usb card and plugged the drive into that

jsp21c · 22 Nov 2010 at 21:18

It might be worth a look to see if your USB HDD is a Primary partition & if changing it to a Logical partition makes any difference ..... however you're going to need some partition manager software to do that.

Culinia · 23 Nov 2010 at 20:25

edscdk said:
had this before with external drives, I installed an £8 usb card and plugged the drive into that

What you mean like a pci card? If you see what I mean? Thinking plugging usb into usb attached to usb???

jsp21c said:
It might be worth a look to see if your USB HDD is a Primary partition & if changing it to a Logical partition makes any difference ..... however you're going to need some partition manager software to do that.

Cool thanks. Yes it is 'primary partition', will look into it.

Culinia · 23 Nov 2010 at 21:07

I seem to have found the problem.

In bios: disable "legacy usb mass media drives" under usb configuration