Bootable USB Drive, how do make it stop?

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I tried to make my flash drive bootable, but all it says something about sysmangr missing.

Anyways, I don't need it bootable anymore. I do need to stop it from trying to boot when it is plugged in though. Otherwise I have to remove the drive every time on boot up.

How do I go about this?

The BIOS isn't even set to boot to removable drives, so it's got to be something on the drive itself making it try to boot to it.
 
Yeah, nothing on the USB drive could overwrite the BIOS' own boot order if your HDD and/or CD are set before it. That being said, just re-format the USB drive and it'll clear anything you've done to make it bootable.
 
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Ok so I formatted the USB drive, went into boot order in BIOS and confirmed that only HDD and CD were selected.

Still trying to boot to it.
 
Ok there has to be some setting in my BIOS jacking this up.

Here's the scoop:

I put in a different usb drive to test that it was the BIOS.

I went into the BIOS and confirmed that Removable Drives wasn't in the boot list.

I did notice the usb drive showed up as the last spot in both the HDD priority list as well as the CD ROM priority list.

At this point, the boot list is:
1. HDD
2. CD ROM

I restart, and it goes BOOTING FROM CD-ROM......Invalid system disk, please replace, blah, blah, blah.

I don't know how it went to CD when HDD was first and my boot drive is top of the priority.

So then I go back into BIOS, remove CD ROM from boot list. Leaving ONLY HDD.
Restart, and again I get: Invalid Boot Disk, blah blah blah.

So I pull out the USB drive, restart, and it boots right up to my HDD.

What gives?
 
Wait what? First your rig wouldn't reboot properly unless you unplugged your USB drive and now it won't boot properly unless you do leave it plugged in? Were you using some type of encryption or security software that stored a key on the USB? I don't think you can do that at the BIOS level but I can't imagine how else to make sense of the scenario you're describing.
 
did you install your OS with the USB drive installed? Sounds to me like the master boot record might be on the USB drive, not the hard disk.
 
My P6T won't boot with any USB drive plugged into the case's front panel ports.

That's just the way it is and there's nothing I can do about it.

I've seen this behaviour on many MBs.
 
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