I have two external HD's for whatever reason, they won't get past the bios. I did some research and found this to be a common issue, however there doesn't seem to be a way to disable the mobo to try to boot from the hardrives, the main problem, is when I have the hardrives plugged in, I can't access the bios to change anything, any ideas?
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Windows won't boot with External HD's
- Thread starter pc1x1
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I have the same problem, whenever my external WD 320gb is plugged in, it won't get past the bios and the pc continually reboots. It boots fine without it plugged in and I can use the drive normally inside windows.
Thing is, I can get inside the bios with the drive in, it detects it, and I made sure it's the very last on the boot order, but the problem remains.
Thing is, I can get inside the bios with the drive in, it detects it, and I made sure it's the very last on the boot order, but the problem remains.
Rydawg5143
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Turn off booting from ext drives?
My issue was actually a scanner, for some reason the scanner usb was corrupted, I power cycled it, and it fixed, this is after hours, of unplugging stuff to see which one worked and did not. But yea, see if you can turn off booting from externals. Or update the firmware on your external drives?