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Booting from external hard drive
Motherboard: Asus A8N5X
So after the hard drive fiasco that I reported in another thread, I got clever and decided to create an "Emergency Boot Drive" that would have Windows on it as well as some utilities for data recovery.
I took one of the many old hard drives that I have floating around and plugged it into the compter AND unplugged my other two drives. Then I ran Windows Install off the DVD and installed Windows to the old drive. I installed my software. All was good. I plugged in the other two drives and tried to boot from the "Emergency" drive and it worked fine.
Last step was to unplug the emergency drive from the motherboard, connect it via USB and try to boot. The BIOS sees the drive and I tell it to boot from the drive.
So the computer is booting. The "Starting Windows" message comes up and then the system reboots. This happens everytime I try it.
Any ideas of what it happening here? Does Windows reset the USB ports so that the drive suddenly vanishes?
Thanks.