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‎01-15-2014 12:52 AM - last edited on ‎01-15-2014 06:40 PM by

‎01-15-2014 12:52 AM - last edited on ‎01-15-2014 06:40 PM by

Backup External HDD causes huge delay in Booting PC

I have an aging HP Pavillion mod a6442a running Windows 7 Ultimate. It works well except that when the external HDD that I use for Windows Backup is attached the PC takes 4.5 mins to get past the blue 'hp invent' screen, while when it's not connected it takes only 8 secs.  The BIOS boot order is HDD - HDD - CD-ROM.   Can someone suggest a fix to deal with the delay in booting with the external HDD attached.

 

P.S. This thread has been moved from Storage>Automated Backup to Storage > Disk-Based Systems > Disk. -HP Forum Moderator

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