I have a Western Digital My Book external hard drive connected to a server running Windows XP 2003 Server - Standard Edition. It's formatted using NTFS and is connected via USB and designated as drive Z:. When the system is started (or restarted as in the case of Microsoft updates) the system trys to boot from the Western Digital My Book external hard drive and "freezes up" since it's not a bootable device. Short of disabling automatic updates, is there a way to keep the server from looking to the Z: drive during a restart?
I have gone into the BIOS and Boot-USB Boot = Disabled.
I check the Boot Priority and it’s
1. Floopy #1
2. CD/R
3. RAID-1
I have contacted Western Digital and they do not support systems running Windows Server.
Any other thoughts?
In the bios, check that Hard Drive is before External Devices in the boot order.
Go into your 'update settings'. there is a section of where it asks you about how you want your settings set and where to send updates to. You may find the problem here. Check all the 'advanced' settings as well. If your Western digital is plugged in via USB and not requiring updates, unplug it while starting your system, after complete start up, reinsert the USB plug. It may show new devise found, then from here, you may be asked to reinstall it to stop the rebooting.
I have exactly the same issue but with a different brand of external drive. Even though the boot order has USB last the Server 2003 froze on restart due to the external USB Simply unplugging the USB allowed the boot to continue.
In my case the problem was that the external hard disk had accidently been Marked as "Active".
I simply reformatted the External USB drive.
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