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Old February 13th 18, 08:49 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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Default External HD boot

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"?Â* 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?


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

Why?

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