Windows 7 wont boot without external hard drive turned on?


  1. Shockwave
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    Windows 7 wont boot without external hard drive turned on?


    I just restarted my PC and i kept getting erros regarding hardware, at first it would just hold at updating dmi pool , after i reset the bios to fail safe defaults it would then give me the I/O error. I noticed my external drive was turned off and I turned it on and windows booted fine. Is there a connection here i can disable?

    Windows is installed on my SSD drive not my external.

    thanks
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  3. theog
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    Try starting your PC with external HD unpluged.
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  4. gregrocker
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    If you can't boot up with external unplugged, then plug it in and post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt drive map and listings, using SNipping tool in Start Menu.
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