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  1. Posts : 3,302
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
       #11

    boohbah said:
    Ok, i removed the one touch ,reebooted fine no probs, plugged one touch back in set it as inactive reebooted, hang on starting windows screen, powered down started ,prompted to startup repair, did that reboots fine .....so far.

    have to re-do the icons i had on some of my folders now, doh!
    back soon.
    I'm no expert at this but that says to me somewhere along the line some boot files were transferred to disk "2" by mistake. Start-up repair should have fixed that and you should be good from here on in.

    Danny
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  2. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
    Thread Starter
       #12

    lets hope so, the kids are moaning that im hogging the computer.
    thanks again for your help danny, got to spread it around im afraid, IOU
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  3. Posts : 3,302
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
       #13

    boohbah said:
    lets hope so, the kids are moaning that im hogging the computer.
    thanks again for your help danny, got to spread it around im afraid, IOU
    No worries mate
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  4. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
    Thread Starter
       #14

    Update:

    well it hung again this morning and this time i switched off the external that it tries to boot from ,or that is causing the hang and it booted normally.
    funnily enough i had the exact same issue with my old desktop but with a different external, although it wasnt until i upgraded from vista to win 7 that the problem started on the old one.

    slightly puzzling ,im going to try reset the boot order so that the desktop drive is first in the boot queue
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  5. Posts : 3,302
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
       #15

    boohbah said:
    Update:

    well it hung again this morning and this time i switched off the external that it tries to boot from ,or that is causing the hang and it booted normally.
    funnily enough i had the exact same issue with my old desktop but with a different external, although it wasnt until i upgraded from vista to win 7 that the problem started on the old one.

    slightly puzzling ,im going to try reset the boot order so that the desktop drive is first in the boot queue
    MMmmm that drive is trying to butt in on the boot sequence somewhere.
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  6. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
    Thread Starter
       #16

    well the external. (iomega 1T) has now taken to not showing in "computer", it will show several hours after the pc has been booted, thus making it unreliable and untrustworthy. so i have copied the files from it and no longer use it. bit of a bummer really as i could do with the extra space, will have to buy a new one for birthday now.
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  7. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #17

    Try installing the external drive in another USP port. I would also not have it active.
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  8. Posts : 14,606
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7600
    Thread Starter
       #18

    i tried a different usb portwhen it started playing up but it was no good, anyway i have a reason to get a larger one now
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