I have a seagate external hardrive.?

Question

I only have a few questions. I'm not sure if they are actual problems, or if that is standard for external harddrives.

First question: If my computer needs to reboot, due to software updates and I forget to turn off my external hard drive, my computer says that the boot disk has changed, when it starts up, then I have to press F1 to continue. Is this something that I can get rid of?

Second question: If I forget to turn it off and do a cold boot on my computer, it will say invalid oprating system. I have to turn off my external harddrive and reboot my computer. Is this normal as well?

Ok, I do have another question.

Third queston: When I first turn on my external harddrive, the computer scans all of the files on it and asks which media I want to play the files on. Does it have to scan the external harddrive everytime I turn it on?

Seagate 80 Gb external USB.

Answer 1

The only way you can stop the machine from asking you those questions is to turn off your external drive.

Everything is perfectly normal, Windows now recognizes even the lowly thumb drive as a boot option seeing as the floppy has gone pretty much extinct.

Answer 2

Sounds like you have your external hard drive set as your initial boot hard drive. Maybe you don't but I would check the bios setting under boot devices, and make sure your external hard drive is NOT listed as one of the primary or secondary boot options. If the computer tries to boot from a hard drive with no operating system, then you are going to get an invalid drive error.

does your seagate drive come with software that starts everytime you turn on the computer or hardrive? Check to see if there is some sort of loaded soft ware for the hard drive and play with it to try disable the software from loading on startup.. Most external hard drives are set to "sync" with another partition. Perhaps the scanning is cross checking files from one partition to your external.

Answer 3

First, one might desire to comprehend that there are 2 diverse sizes of GB. in the metric gadget, the prefixes kilo, mega, giga advise one thousand (10^3), a million (10^6), 1000000000 (10^9). those are the meanings utilized by using hard rigidity manufacturers in specifying the flexibility of their drives. A 250 GB rigidity, then, has 250 billion bytes. in spite of the undeniable fact that, those prefixes have a diverse meaning whilst utilized to pc reminiscence. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes (2^10 quite of 10^3) A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes or 1024*1024 bytes A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. So whilst your pc comments the dimensions of a 250 billion byte rigidity, it is going to document it as: 250 billion / (1024^3) GB = very almost 233 GB This nonetheless leaves a fifty 3 GB discrepancy (quite of 70). a number of that's mandatory for "overhead" yet i does no longer anticipate it to be that a lot. another possibilites: There are barriers with particular BIOS and additionally in the previous variations of homestead windows. i could could seem those up, yet i do no longer think of one hundred eighty GB grew to become right into a sort of limits (besides the reality that i should be incorrect). verify that there are no hidden partitions (besides the reality that i could only anticipate this on a rigidity blanketed with a working laptop or pc, yet some exterior drives might have particular utility blanketed -- verify your drives documentation).