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Sailor Steve · 06-05-10, 12:19 PM

Howdy Hi;

I just bought and installed a 1 TB external hard drive. Everything works fine except this morning when I started up my computer it wouldn't go past the first load screen. This says 'GATEWAY' and <F2 BIOS> and <F10 BOOT>. Hitting either key did nothing so I fiddled around a bit and found out that if I unplugged the new drive from the PC it would go to the BOOT screen all by itself, and from there I could start it with no problems.

So it's hardly a catastrophe but it is annoying. Does anyone have an idea what it's doing and how I can fix it?

06-05-10, 12:19 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Boot Problem Howdy Hi; I just bought and installed a 1 TB external hard drive. Everything works fine except this morning when I started up my computer it wouldn't go past the first load screen. This says 'GATEWAY' and <F2 BIOS> and <F10 BOOT>. Hitting either key did nothing so I fiddled around a bit and found out that if I unplugged the new drive from the PC it would go to the BOOT screen all by itself, and from there I could start it with no problems. So it's hardly a catastrophe but it is annoying. Does anyone have an idea what it's doing and how I can fix it? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo