Thanks Rick, it does indeed boot if you wait long enough. I haven't tried it
enough times to see if it speeds up as I rarely turn the machine off. I will
probably get a USB2 card at some time as I'm going to be replacing my
printer and may get a photo printer so will want to take advantage of the
increased speed with USB2.

Regards,

Joe


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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Rick Glazier
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] WinXP won't boot with External USB2 drive


This may or may not work...
(It works with USB memory card readers and other stuff.)

Give it lots of time.  Once it boots (very) slow once or twice,
it seems to find it quicker after that... (Almost normal.)

                                Rick Glazier

From: "Joe Trimarchi"
> I have an HP Pavilion 7965 running WinXP Home Edition. I've attached a
> Maxtor external USB2 hard drive and the system won't boot while it is
> connected. It stops at the HP Logo screen.

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