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[jzonaras]

i find that my puter will not get beyond the initial splash screen for intel inside with  my 1 T external drive attached; if i it the automatic reset button in such a situation, the system boots normally.  If I boot the system with out my 1 t drive attached, it boots normally.  If I reboot from w/i windows xp, the rebooting is normal.  The model number of the drive is st310005exa101.   My puter has a Pentium 4 cpu that clocks at 3 Ghz and i havce 2 megs of ram.Once booted the, new drive works correctly.

[Grim0x]

HM, strange.
Your bios is most likely the culprit though - try tinkering around with the settings regarding USB / what the system looks for on bootup.

perhaps, try disabling "boot from other devices"

And just make sure the HDD you have your OS on, is the first boot device.
Try that.

Some bioses try to ID USB devices - so it can give you the name of it if you hit the keyboard shortcut for choosing a boot device.
I suspect it may have something to do with that.

[jzonaras]

I read all the threads about the Maxtor 1 tb drive and did turn of fusb booting; it had no impact.  I must say that the drive works fine with my lap top.  I contacted Intel the folks who made the mother board. The consensus between Seagate and Intel was to boot the puter and then plug in the power to the drive.  That works.

[smokefree]

I have the same issues with this ST310005EXA101 external drive.  I can not reboot with the drive pluged into the USB port.  I have attempted to re-boot with this drive on both Windows XP Media Center (P4 with 4 gig ram) and also Windows 7 (AMD Phenom II with 8 gig ram).  I do not believe this is an intel motherboard issue as noted above because it will not boot on both AMD and Intel boards.

Interesting, on the windows 7 Phenom II machine, if this drive is plugged in, the bios changes the boot order of the local drives! Default local HDD boot order is the factory drive with Windows 7 loaded #1.   I have another drive installed for local storage that is changed to #1 if I leave the seagate external pluggged in during re-boot.  I must unplug the Seagate ST310005EXA101 drive, then restore the bios to defaults, then it will allow me to re-boot from the factory drive with Windows 7 (as long as the Seagate ST310005EXA101 is still un-pluged).

In windows XP Media Center, I have to un-plug the seagate external ST310005EXA101, then perform a hard re-boot because the computer is locked at the flash screen. The seagate drive does not appear to effect the bios in the XP media Center machine.

do I have a bad seagate ST310005EXA101?  should i return this drive?  Is there a fix for this?

[smokefree]

OK, i found a fix that works for me.  In BIOS, I disabled this device in the boot menu.  Now seagate external ST310005EXA101 device does not power on until after windows 7 starts.  Problem solved (for me).  Of course this means that I can not ever boot from this device, however at least I can re-start the computer without having to remember to un-plugging the external Seagate drive first.