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marianoi

USB Zip drive makes Win XP unable to boot

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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

 

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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.

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