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USB External Hard Drive
Name: volpete Date: November 7, 2005 at 16:08:09 Pacific OS: Windows 98SE CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 1.4 gig
Comment:
I recently purchased a 250 GIG Comstar External USB Hard Drive. I also upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 98 SE. I'm finding that the hard drive works fine, but when I restart the computer with the USB Hard Drive powered on, the computer just hangs before it does a RAM test. When I turn the power off to the hard drive, the computer proceeds to boot up. Once booted up, I can turn on the hard drive and it works fine again. Any ideas what's causing the problem?
Name: Violin1 Date: November 7, 2005 at 16:48:54 Pacific
Reply:
I'm not sure on whats going on but, whats so hard about turning the external hard drive off during boot up then turning it back on when it's up and running?
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: November 7, 2005 at 17:14:31 Pacific
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I have the same problem Ted. It would be nice to get a fix, but I don't think that's gonna happen. I'm lucky because I seldom use mine. One fix is to get a PCI IDE controller (that's 48 bit LBA capable) and find a place inside the case to place it. I have one sitting on top of the power supply. Not ideal, but it works.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: November 7, 2005 at 17:15:59 Pacific
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"find a place inside the case to place it"
That's the hard drive not the PCI controller. :-)
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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 8, 2005 at 02:53:00 Pacific
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I had a similar prob with a USB printer in w2k. Never did solve it.
My ext USB HD doesn't stop the boot, but w2k doesn't recognize it either. If I power the drive after w2k is started, it's happy as a clam.
Go figure.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 5
Name: thomasphan Date: December 4, 2005 at 16:30:41 Pacific
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I just bought comstar 250G ext HD and had similar problem (ie my Dell PC running Win XP home could not boot) when using USB 1.1 version. This USB 1.1 is not fast enough for video so i bought an IO Gear PCI USB 2.0 card and the problem is now gone. U may want to check your USB version of your PC, Ted.
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