In message , Ed Cryer
writes:
Jeff Barnett wrote:
Good Guy wrote on 2/13/2018 9:51 AM:
On 13/02/2018 16:26, Ed Cryer wrote:
I have an external HD plugged permanently into this machine.
For some time now whenever I did a reboot it would produce the
autoplay GUI. But now it's started doing the same with a boot as well.
Checkdisk comes clean, 0% fragmented.

Does anybody know the cause?

Ed

What is "autoplay GUI"?* How is boot order set in your machine's
bios? It should normally be something like - HD, DVD-Drive, USB
device. however, some idiots would have set it USB devices,
DVD-Drive, HD. You get all sorts of "Tom" "Dick" and "Harry" here!!!.
If a HD that is bootable is first in the list, the devices in the
rest of the list will NEVER be used to boot. The "idiots" have set an
order that allows removable devices/media to be used if available. Is
it possible you have made your "normal" list backwards?

Neither way is idiotic.

Having the HD first protects you against having left a bootable (e. g.)
CD in the drive, especially one you didn't _know_ was bootable, through
a reboot (especially if unintended, such as might be caused by certain
kinds of power outages). On the other hand, it means you'll have to go
into the BIOS and change it if you ever _want_ to boot from a CD (as I
do when I do a Macrium backup).

There are no boot files on J:

Ed

P.S. Notice the "there are". Hardly anybody uses that these days. The
vast majority say "there is; there's".
https://goo.gl/QzrJWe

It would never even _occur_ to me to write "there is no" followed by a
plural. ("There is no boot file" would be OK, though I'd not say it.)

Why?

Why what - why is that incorrect, or why do (IYO) most people get it
wrong? (Surely a commoner error is much/many and allied matters.)
--
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