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New computer with windows 7 - when external Seagate pnk2al-510 is plugged in at start, windows will not boot up. boots up find when unplugged and works find if HD is plugged in after windows start.
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Unplug external drive. Restart PC until normal. It will come back. Once back, plug in external drive. Then it is read. You cannot start(boot) PC with a live backup drive connected unless you change the boot order in your PC bios (sometimes called post). If this is not easy for you. Best to plug in after boot up.
Computer starts normally in windows with a windows that is installed on a hard disk on that copmuter. In other words - windows is installed on an internal hard disk of a computer A. If you get it out and put in a computer B it wont work.
To have the things work:
1. First should set in BIOS boot up options first boot device CD/DVD, second OTHER/USB/EXTERNAL, third HDD
2. Should boot up from a CD and install windows on an external hard disk (in your case your 3TB Toshiba external HD)
3. Set in BIOS boot up options first boot device OTHER/USB/EXTERNAL, second internal hard disk e.g. HDD0, HDD1
if you external hdd does not work on any other computer other than yours . try opening it with a linux OS. u can Ubuntu live cd .. boot from it and run it live...connect your HDD .. i hope you can see you files then >>> good luck
restart the system, while restarting , press delete/F8 to enter in BIOS menu, select boot priority and select the primary HDD as first boot device, deselct the "boot otehr device" option.
it should work fine.,
Cheers!
Most likely the problem is that your computer is trying to boot from your external hard drive and that why windows 7 wont start up but it is a very easy fix. with the freeagent attached start up your computer system and when the first BIOS screen is displayed press either the F8 key or the ESC key to enter BIOS setup it should say on the screen which button you need to press. Once you press the correct button the BIOS set up screen will load there should be tabs at the top and select the boot tab, under the boot tab there will be a list of devices in the order that the computer will try and boot off of them all u need to do is move your freeagent to the bottom of the list and every thing will work perfect.
Some USB devices seem to cause this problem. I've had it myself. USB devices when hooked up cause the computer to freeze as it hard for USB drivers to be loaded outside of windows. Try updating you windows thru windows update though even updated I still run into the problem sometimes. If updating dosen't work you need to keep the drive unhooked while booting then hook up in windows.
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