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can not boot with extra hdds connected ?
My system has been stable for years.....but recently - with no hardware changes - my system will not boot with certain SSDs HDDs attached inside the box. What happens is startup freezes at press F2 or Del to enter bios and boot device error red led light blinking on the board
Have three drives now that if attached...will cause above error...and inability to boot to Windows 10....two of them are internal - one ssd and one ide - and one external USB drive.
If I unplug these internal/external drives...my system boots but can not obviously access any of these drives ?
Can I unplug these drives and then replug them in after successful boot...I guess this would be a 'hot' connection of the system power lines to the various drive(s) once windows loads and starts
Hard to believe that all three of these drive failed at the same time ?
All three drives pass both Windows Seatools tests and boot to dos Seatools tests ??
Any ideas....have lots and lots of data files on these auxiliary drives I would hate to loose if possible to solve this
Thanks...TiminAz