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Unable to boot into BIOS when external HDD connected
Hi all
I am having a weird issue, as the title says, I am unable to boot into BIOS when I have the external HDD connected via USB 3.0.
when i want to start it up and boot into windows it starts to load the windows installer which you would find like on a win 7 install disk but then stops.
- the external HDD is not loaded with any win 7 and is not setup as a bootable image, its just data
- the HDD is a Buffalo Drive Station 3 TB with USB 3.0
my current setup looks like this below, i suspect that something went wrong during the OS install despite not using this HDD for any installation but another USB dongle which was slip-streamed with the USB and Samsung nvme drivers necessary for install.
On my asus laptop i did not have this issue before just with this new built i just did.
i have to unplug the HDD so i can boot into bios and windows normally.
i cant see the boot order in BIOS as the drive is not live and visible even if i connect it in bios once unplugged previously.
any help appreciated or if more info is needed, thanks much
cheers
stephan