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April 18th, 2012 18:00
SeaGate GoFlex Desk USB3 external hard drive
So here is the problem: I installed GoFlex Desk USB 3 external hard drive and it completed a back up in good fashion. The problem came when I shut down my Aurora R4 normally; later when I went to boot it up again it would fail to bring up windows and go into a windows trouble shooting. If I unplugged the USB 3 from the GoFlex the Aurora will boot normally. I went into set up and saw that the GoFlex Desk was in boot position 4 so I selected it and disabled position 4 boot. It did not help the problem with the GoFlex USB connected to the computer after I shut down and reconnected the USB 3; same problem. Anyone have any insight?
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Alienware
System Model Aurora-R4
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Alienware A03, 2/8/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.95 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.07 GB
Total Virtual Memory 11.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 8.94 GB
Page File Space 5.95 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Cenobitez
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April 18th, 2012 21:00
Not directly related both the GoFlex have a nickname where the le is replaced with a u.
They are kinda problematic in general from what I saw when researching my seagate drive failure in a few months back. Saying that I have Death Stars in my 2 of my NAS and no problems so could be the disgruntled few are louder than the happy many.
I assume your backup is a basically a disk image of everything, which means your bios probably see's it as another version of windows.
Have you tried a different usb port ? I know on my m18x, if I plug a bootable usb into the esata slot it stops dead, but the other slots are ok.
Also maybe worth looking if your BIOS has a Boot from USB option you can disable, then enable when you need it :)
Charles Sawyer
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April 20th, 2012 07:00
It was just a basic Documents, video, picture type back up.