Question

I have a USB Hard disk that I am using as a secondary drive just for extra storage.

When this is attached and I start my PC the second screen says searching for mass storage dives for about 5 minutes before continuing on.

The same happens when I have a USB pen disk attached upon boot. If I attach the device after the PC has loaded then it is very quick however plugging and unplugging is not ideal.

Is there away to disable this in the BIOS as I cannot instantly see an option.

On boot it informs me I have an American Trends AMIBIOS in the BIOS setup it states the version as v02.58 2006. This is running on a ASUS MV2 Motherboard.

Answer 1

Usually this is because the BIOS is searching your whole drive for a boot sector that it can latch onto. You can sometimes upgrade the BIOS to make it a bit faster (usually just makes it give up easier). The other option is to remove the "removable device" from your BIOS boot order, or place it below your normal HDD.

Answer 2

Have you looked for a BIOS update?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistahardware/thread/c3ed0c76-07ad-462b-8715-90342a555cb2 - recommends doing so.

Answer 3

Some BIOS versions allow you to specify removable media as one of the boot devices. If you remove this from the bios boot order, the system should ignore the USB drive while windows loads.