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Boot from the wrong Drive

tabaheights — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:49:39 GMT

Just bought a Western Digital USB 1TB portable hard disc drive for my VGC RA 304 CEK when I turn it on the computer tries to boot from the portable drive so I have to start the computer with the hard disc unplugged and when it has reached the ready state I can then plug in the portable drive with no problem, is there an answer to this problem?:smileyconfused:

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Boot from the wrong Drive

Blencogo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:50:35 GMT

Have you tried changing the Boot Order in the BIOS?

Try Tapping F2 during boot - when you see the Vaio Logo - this should open the BIOS screens and allow you to change the Boot Order by moving USB to the bottom of the list, or below HDD at least.

Boot from the wrong Drive

tabaheights — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:27:06 GMT

Thanks for replying to my question but could you help me further, I don't really know what to change and I am afraid to chance something I really don't know about, how do I identify what needs to be changed?

Boot from the wrong Drive

Blencogo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:00:25 GMT

I am not sure which type of BIOS you have - I would guess Phoenix but I may be wrong.

See if you can find your BIOS here: -

http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1066408.htm

I would guess it is the last one at the very bottom of the list and you need to move the Removable Drive to below the HDD in the order. Sorry I can't be more specific but there are many different BIOS types.

Boot from the wrong Drive

isiri12 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:34:25 GMT

You might try swapping leads for the plug that does boot your computer.

Boot from the wrong Drive

tabaheights — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:34:19 GMT

Thanks for your reply, I have found out that I have a AMI Version 2.53 and my boot sequence reads 1st is DVD drive 2nd is Floppy DD and third is Raid which I assume is my C drive, I have managed to change them around so that the HDD is on the top of the list but it doesn't rectify the situation, I don't know if I am trying to change the correct thing as there is no USB listed in the sequence? I did try to send you some jpegs of my boot file but the sight would not allow me to.

Regards