I have a external HD that works fine with my laptop. Couple of days ago the laptop will not start (run Windows at all) if the HD is plugged in. When I start laptop and plug in HD it works fine... Puzzled....
It happens sometimes, just dont plug the external HDD in till it has started laoding windows. the system trys to pick up the external HDD but cannot find and operating system. This happends with servers a lot, we get calls saying that the server is broken and will not book and i turns out there was an external HDD plugged in.
Hope this helps.
Check the boot order in the BIOS (setup) to verify your CD drive and hard drive are mentioned in the boot order before any USB devices.
Hi, thanks for the answers... I tried to run a start up diagnostics but laptop never finish it. I just shuts down on 80% of diagnostics done... (when I did it HD was pluged in)
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