I just purchased a Seagate 750 gig external hard drive. My computer (running Windows XP home edition) will not boot past the screen where the devices are recognized as long as the Seagate is physically connected. I have to disconnect either the power cord or USB cord to the Seagate and reboot. Once the computer has booted, I can reconnect the Seagate cable and everything works great once the system recognizes the external drive. PLEASE...any suggestions?
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Jump to PostBoot into your BIOS and change the boot Priority.
Make sure the USB boot Device is *after* your primary hard drive.
Jump to PostDisconnect the external drive and reboot. Enter the BIOS setup and navigate to the setup priority (or setup order) screen.
While some BIOS's will tell the difference, some versions think a USB drive is a CD and will attempt to boot from it if CD is first in boot …
Jump to PostAlso at BIOS enable Usb Legacy Support.
Jump to PostI am all of a sudden having this problem on XP with my WD it has been working fine for months and now PC won't boot up with it connected. Any ideas plz?
This isn't an answer so much as an observation -- recently I've seen a number of XP …
Jump to Postfor info:legacy suport is an attempt by Ms ,to ensure that devices (such as printers/modems keyboard screen but not usb etc from aboiut prehistiric times) still work with modern windows etc. it is a system that tries to detect such devices andthen loads appropriate drivers ....well a good try anyway!!!
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