ESATA drive boot problem

[Kirk Gittings]

Computer gurus....your opinion please.

I recently added another, larger, esata external drive to to my backup scheme. Same housing as before. Problem is if I start up the machine with the new drive turned on the computer won't boot. If I turn it on after booting all is well.

This never happened before when adding new external sata drives. I assume it is trying to boot from the new drive. The bios settings for boot priority seem to be fine 1) dvd drive 2) c:-hard drive 3) inactive.

What am I missing?

Vista Ultimate.

[Preston]

Kirk,

Try adding the external eSATA drive to the boot sequence in position #3.

I don't know if that will work, but it's worth a shot.

--P

[Sevo]

Have you already updated the motherboard (or RAID card) BIOS? New drives often have sizes or interface protocol extensions beyond the specs of the original BIOS.

[gari beet]

Is the new drive set to "slave" at the back? if it isn't the system may well try to boot from it. I had the same problem with my linux machine, this was the fix for my problem.

Cheers
Gari

[Kirk Gittings]

I've got to go out of town to visit the grand kids. I will try some of the solutions when I get back. Thanks all.

[Richard M. Coda]

Buy a Mac!

[Ron Marshall]

Buy a Mac!

No politics!

[Kirk Gittings]

i also have two Macs. They are not issue free believe me.

[Bob McCarthy]

Assuming there is no needed info on the disk and it's for storage, I'd do a clean wipe/reformat.

Might even pick up a little space, where the drive mfg's add-on "crap" was written.

bob

[domaz]

It has to be the Boot option if this is a PC. Just go into the BIOS (Usually you have to hold F2 or Del at startup) and look at your Boot options- hopefully it will list the SATA drives it detects and you can move the Internal one up. Make sure the ESATA drive is connected when doing this so the BIOS can detect it.