New external HDD problem?

[thecoolest]

do 1 thing i think u install xp right

its happens it some kinda driver32.cab "extracting error"

1. you have to plug in hdd everytime when you see your desktop screen

2.if it has usb driver problem then nothing would be done repair your xp via cd or reinstall xp again it takes only 30 min (reinstalling is good thing)

3.in bios it would be a setting about boot hdd from usb..as i think (coz my bios has it )its upon yours to do it or not .k

xp it will happen..sometimes its not pc problem its xp's installation problem.k

[hontoCorti]

I had this problem also once...
Windows did not start when the USB hd was connected...
I think it was a windows driver problem...

[saebrtooth]

yoco's problem is even b4 windows boots, at the bios

[0sai]

The problem, I believe, is that your BIOS is attempting to boot from your External HDD. For some reason, this causes an error, making the computer fail on startup. To avoid this problem, try setting your BIOS to boot from the internal Hard-Drive (HDD) and not from the External (USB). This should fix the problem.
Another option that could fix it is to reformat the Drive into another Disk File System format (either Fat32 or NTFS), which could stop some file system driver incompatibilities loaded by the BIOS on startup.

[saebrtooth]

Setting boot to C: is a good idea

If the external is not bootable the bios should be able to recognise as unbootable and skip to another device until it finds a bootable one, an old bios wont be able to do this so an update is still recomended.

[0sai]

Yes, strange that it causes the startup process to fail instead of just a huge lag when it searches the startup disk for some form of boot information.

[thecoolest]

true.

that will happen..thats what i said 0sai..too

sebertooth
every bios works as that....before 12 years bios will stop at 2 hdd..not new 1

bios see every cd/dvd/hdd 1 by 1 as boot sequence..my frn..it will see everything..which has windows boot file then it boots..takes freaking 5 to 15 seconds.

[saebrtooth]

So yoco, if u cant update the bios, u cant change the boot seq, you cant test hdd on another computer, u wont buy a usb hubb. Then bro just connect it after windows loads