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Windows 7 Refuses to Boot
I have a tower system based on an ASUS M5A78L running Windows 7, and it is refusing to go past the ASUS Boot Screen. I also have a dismountable USB based Seagate backup drive that if I remove before booting results in the boot process completing, but not if it is present. I have had USB problems in the past, but these seem to have gone away with driver updates and so on
I have done the obvious and checked the boot order in the boot set-up, which refers only to the Hard Drive and the DVD in boot priority.
Has anyone got any ideas about why this has suddenly started to happen. As the boot does not cmplete I don't think that I have any debug dumps.
Sorry if this is in the wrong place - it was not obvious where to put it