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Originally Posted by mtaman02
I hate to say this but any type of Flash or USB Ext. Drive will cause the system not to boot up. During the POST the system looks and finds all drives and see's which one it can try and boot from. It finds a USB Ext Drive or Flash Drive it will try and boot from it. The only way to change it from looking at them is to change the Startup Process and make sure that the Removeable Disk is the last thing that the BIOS will try and boot from and that CD-ROM, Floppy and HDD are in that order.
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I realize that the computer will try to boot to a USB drive; I have done this myself. However, this will only give a "No OS" or "Error loading OS" or black-screen-with-flashing-gray-underscore error, and will never boot Windows (OK, if you configured your flash drive's MBR to point to the hard drive, it will work, but I'm assuming that's not what's going on). That system, if trying to boot from an SD card, would not boot at all!
Good point though. If it was me, I would be preparing myself for it to fail. That way, there are no surprises of the bad kind. That's just sound advice anyhow.
JBot