Question with an external drive hooked on my PC
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
September 20, 2010 2:51pm CST
Here is the symptom I saw most PC reacting to when I, or either my sister forgot to unplug the external drive or a flash drive from the USB port. Yesterday, my sister borrowed my desktop to work on her project, and she got her flash drive stick in the USB port. After she finished her work, she forgot took it out. When I turn on the desktop, the pc won't go to the Windows operating system, and it just stuck in a black screen. After I realized there was a flash drive still hooking up in the USB port, I remove it, and restart the PC again. The computer is back on normal operating mode. Why is that happen, can someone tell me?
It also did the same to an external drive when I forgot to turn it off when I start the PC.
5 responses
@gjabaigar (2200)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
It is on your BIO Configuration Setup or to your motherboard setup. Read your motherboard or computer manual.
Actually because base on your present Configuration setup, is to look for other possible storage devices that can boot on. The configuration on your motherboard is setup first on other devices such as USB Thumbdrives or External HardDisk Drives and not the Internal Hard Disk Drive.... You should find on how to setup your motherboard configurations, and set the Boots sequence to look first your Internal Hard Disk Drive instead the others.... Or "Disable for Booting up" the other devices so the motherboard don't any longer look to boot on those devices even they are still plugged-in on your USB port.
@winstonbaltazar (355)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
For sure your system has a feature not to start when a removable storage in the peripherals is connected on your computer.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
21 Sep 10
What might be the reason for that happen? I just don't understand. The same thing happen when I connected it to an external hard drive too.
@cachehit (166)
• China
22 Sep 10
may be your bios is configured by the rule:first boot device from usb or removable device.
you can have a try as follow:
press del when os is rebooting,and you will be leaded into bios .find boot device or similar something,go into it to setup the boot sequence(don't put the usb or removable device into the first position)
@RamRes (1723)
• Argentina
21 Sep 10
Never happened to me, I rarely use any USBs now, and when do, never forget to unplug it.
But, and a clue, try looking in the bios setup. Maybe you have set to try to boot from USB drives when available, and since most pendrives aren't bootable, your PC crashes. Look in the boot order, and the USB ports settings in the setup.
By the way, does Windows even tries to start? Or get a black screen and even no Windows splash?
