Asus P5AD2-E Premium won't boot with eSata running

[Brandy]

I have a one TB eSata backup drive attached to my PC, If I turn on the power to the drive before starting the computer the computer tries to boot from this drive, I can't even go to the bios to make changes. If I shut off the power to the external drive I can access the bios and the external drive is not even on the list.  It would seem that the external drive, when it is powered on, over rides the settings in the bios and wants to boot the PC.   I suspect it has something to do with my backup software, Acronis, which has a feature that requires you press F11 to boot in an emergency, although I have tried with this feature disabled and still it wants to boot the PC.   When the power to the eSata drive is left off until after booting and Windows XP Pro is loaded all works fine, I turn the power on and the drive appears in My Computer, the backup are updated etc.


Any ideas?

God bless
Jim

[Geek-9pm]

For normal operation:
1 turn on Desktop first
2 Turn on External later
Run windows as usual.

For panic recovery:
1. turn on External first
2. turn on PC next
Let the recovery software restore your system.

Was that hard?

[Brandy]

For normal operation:
1 turn on Desktop first
2 Turn on External later
Run windows as usual.

For panic recovery:
1. turn on External first
2. turn on PC next
Let the recovery software restore your system.

Was that hard?

As I stated , I know it can be done this way, it always could, but at one time I could leave the eSata turned on at all times and still boot from my regular OS.

Thanks for trying,
God bless
Jim

[patio]

Did you image the drive with Acronis instead of just storing your images there ? ?
If so that's why it's bootable.