I have a 120gig hard drive which I put into a USB hd enclosure and it seems to cause a lot of problems.
When I have it plugged in it hangs (takes about 60 seconds) while booting up the PC. I have harddrive0 as the first boot device and cd-rom as the second. I also dont have an option for "boot from usb" in my bios.
While windows is loaded if I plug in this drive then i can access it, but if i unplug (or "safely remove it") I have to either A) plug it into a different USB slot (which sometimes works) or B) restart my computer again for windows xp pro sp2 to be able to recognize it.
This is terribly inconvenient.
Ive read around a bit and I know that some USB enclosures perform worse than others. Im wondering how I can fix this problem or which enclosure I can buy where I wont have to deal with this.
Thanks!
When I have it plugged in it hangs (takes about 60 seconds) while booting up the PC. I have harddrive0 as the first boot device and cd-rom as the second. I also dont have an option for "boot from usb" in my bios.
While windows is loaded if I plug in this drive then i can access it, but if i unplug (or "safely remove it") I have to either A) plug it into a different USB slot (which sometimes works) or B) restart my computer again for windows xp pro sp2 to be able to recognize it.
This is terribly inconvenient.
Ive read around a bit and I know that some USB enclosures perform worse than others. Im wondering how I can fix this problem or which enclosure I can buy where I wont have to deal with this.
Thanks!