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| Thread ID: 105220 | 2009-11-23 21:29:00 | Something that is really important to remember when restarting pcs | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 832844 | 2009-11-23 21:29:00 | Take out USB drives or you start pulling your hair out trying to figure out what is wrong and how you managed to lose your operating system. Then seeing a little green light blinking from behind your case and then passing some foul words at your ignorance. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 832845 | 2009-11-23 21:33:00 | yup... I get that often at work, people leave their flash drives plugged in and call IT when their PCs dont bootup the next day. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 832846 | 2009-11-23 22:26:00 | USB drives are the new floppy disks :D Set BIOS on PC to boot from HDD first so it ignores any attached USB drives or any disks that may be in the optical drive. |
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| 832847 | 2009-11-24 00:42:00 | Jeez! Getting PC advice from a Mac fiend... what is this world coming to??? | Greg (193) | ||
| 832848 | 2009-11-24 09:52:00 | :lol: It's not just flash drives that do it, a friend of mine has a USB joystick that will lock his PC up at POST if he leaves it plugged in. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 832849 | 2009-11-24 23:58:00 | What about a USB ext hdd, mine stays plugged in? LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 832850 | 2009-11-25 00:13:00 | Well if there is no boot sector on the hard drive then the BIOS will probably ignore it, which is most likely the case, as you are probably only using it for storage? However even it did have a boot sector, it may not try to boot if the boot order in BIOS looks for one on the internal HDD first anyway... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 832851 | 2009-11-25 00:13:00 | I've got two flash drives that are always plugged in, and the computer doesn't try to boot from it. I guess everyone should check their BIOS settings now :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 832852 | 2009-11-25 00:16:00 | I usually plug my USB drive into the PC once it has booted up and when its time to shutdown for the day I unplug it. | convair (13650) | ||
| 832853 | 2009-11-25 00:31:00 | + some printers with FlashCard readers built in :2cents: | sroby (11519) | ||
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