USB Zip drive makes Win XP unable to boot
Hi All, Thanks for your previous replays. I have a new issue to comment you guys. I have an external ZIP drive (Iomega 100) connected to one of the USB 2 ports of my PC. When restarting the PC with the ZIP drive connected to it the system never boots! (black screen before the win XP screen).
Hi All,
Thanks for your previous replays.
I have a new issue to comment you guys. I have an external ZIP drive (Iomega 100) connected to one of the USB 2 ports of my PC.
When restarting the PC with the ZIP drive connected to it the system never boots! (black screen before the win XP screen). If I unplug the drive, automatically the system starts booting again.
I checked the BIOS and the HD boots before any USB device…actually I disabled the option for booting from devices other than CD and HD.
Does anyone know how can I solve this issue?
Thanks a lot!!!
Mariano
Thanks for your previous replays.
I have a new issue to comment you guys. I have an external ZIP drive (Iomega 100) connected to one of the USB 2 ports of my PC.
When restarting the PC with the ZIP drive connected to it the system never boots! (black screen before the win XP screen). If I unplug the drive, automatically the system starts booting again.
I checked the BIOS and the HD boots before any USB device…actually I disabled the option for booting from devices other than CD and HD.
Does anyone know how can I solve this issue?
Thanks a lot!!!
Mariano
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I've heard of this before. It has something to do with XP thinking that the zip drive is a harddrive. Have you tried booting up with the zip drive connected while a zip disk is inside of it? There is a knowledge base article on this IIRC - I'll try to dig it up for ya.
EDIT: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304776
Doesn't look too good. MS reccommends reinstalling without the zip drive connected.
EDIT: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304776
Doesn't look too good. MS reccommends reinstalling without the zip drive connected.
