External hard drives don't boot with system

I believe it has to do with your motherboard and specifically the USB Hub. I have a friend who, when he boots his computer, the mouse randomly will or will not be recognized by Windows. It's survived plenty of reformats and even gone across 3 different mice (none generic - Microsoft Intellimouse Exporer, Logitech MX1000, Razer Copperhead), so we've pretty well narrowed the problem down to a flaky motherboard, since he's had other issues as well (for instance, his AGP slot seems to have a short as it's fried no less than 5 Video Cards over 2 years). EMachines aren't exactly known for top-quality components. A seperate USB Controller card MAY fix the problem, but I don't have much experience with teh things so I'm not sure.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If they were bought by Gateway, I'd have to believe that that was the case, but I must have missed that press release.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0202023702.htm

Guess you're right. Who knows. My money's still on the USB Hub, however.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That, I can't explain. My external HD (Vantec Enclosure) and Flash Key are automatically mounted on every boot into both Windows and Linux.

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