External hard drive puts computer on Quaaludes

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by jburwick, Apr 1, 2008.

  1. jburwick

    jburwick Private E-2

    When I started my computer this morning, it booted so slowly that I thought it had taken a sleeping pill. When I unplug my external hard drive, only a couple of months old, it runs fine. I havr tried plugging into a different USB port and it makes no difference. Everything was fine when I shut down last night.

    One clue might be that when I boot my computer, sometimes it hangs up during the startup. If I pull the plug on the external drive for a couple of seconds, it continues the startup. I immediately plug in the hard drive and after that it works fine.

    Until today. It is a Western Digital 350GB drive.
     
    jburwick, Apr 1, 2008
    #1
  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    USB items hanging off a computer can bog down startup. The solution, as you discovered, is to wait until it has booted up then plug in the the external drive.
     
    plodr, Apr 1, 2008
    #2

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