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Boot hangs with usb HDD connected
I have a toshiba 3Tb usb hdd for backup.
Like the title says the boot hangs if it's attached.
I just changed machine and reinstalled windows, and it still happens. It hangs just after the blue Windows appear.
It is marked INactive.
The boot order in the bios is SSD first (usb 2nd)
I can't see any sign of any system on the drive and I can't think I ever installed one
(older forumites might remember I posted the same query on sevenforums which never got resolved. This is a replacement PC of the same general type (dell T3400), but but with win 10 v1909 installed (somewhat to my regret esp WTF have they done with local networking but that's not why I'm here)
Any ideas please