XP won't reboot without USB drive connected

[mark]

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Recently I tried to reboot my XP Pro system after disconnecting my external
MAXTOR USB drive. Now when I try to reboot the boot process stops and asks
me to insert a boot disk! The C:boot.ini doesn't have the usb drive listed.
When I power the USB drive back on, the boot process hits it once and then
boots off of the SATA disk without problems. Once it's running I can
shutdown the USB drive and it doesn't cause any problems. The USB drive
doesn't contain any system or hidden files that are used in booting. If I
turn off the USB devices in the bios, then the system won't boot.

 

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The actual error message I get while trying to boot with the USB Maxtor drive
disconnected is the following: Roboot and select proper boot device or insert
boot media in selected boot device and press a key

"Mark@VRTS" wrote:

> Recently I tried to reboot my XP Pro system after disconnecting my external
> MAXTOR USB drive. Now when I try to reboot the boot process stops and asks
> me to insert a boot disk! The C:boot.ini doesn't have the usb drive listed.
> When I power the USB drive back on, the boot process hits it once and then
> boots off of the SATA disk without problems. Once it's running I can
> shutdown the USB drive and it doesn't cause any problems. The USB drive
> doesn't contain any system or hidden files that are used in booting. If I
> turn off the USB devices in the bios, then the system won't boot.