Solve : USB drive recognition at boot?

1.	Solve : USB drive recognition at boot?
Answer» I have 2 1-TB WD external drives. I have never had a problem with either of them before. Now, at boot-up time, the sequence hangs at identifying USB mass storage devices. The boot will recognize one, or either, of them, and I can then add them as additional drives when Windows XP loads, but I can't get beyone the USB mass storage recognition when I boot up. I have also received the following error at boot time: "Overclock failed or overvoltage failed." I checked the BIOS setup and the power is set at auto and I have never monkeyed with any of these settings so as to constitute a deviation from "Auto." Everything worked fine until just now. I have an ASUS P5WD2 motherboard with an AMI Bios. Any help would be appreciated.This may or may not help but have you tried resetting the BIOS to default settings.What changed between the last time the drives were recognized at boot and the first time they weren't (did you add any new sw or hw or change any hw settings)?Quote from: oldiesman100 on September 16, 2009, 04:07:00 PM I have 2 1-TB WD external drives... How are these drives powered, through the USB or through their own power ADAPTERS?Thank you for the responses. When I only plug in one of the drives, I get an error message that refers to overclocking, etc., along with the exhortation to hit F1 to change my configuration settings, or, F2 to boot with default settings. I initially hit F1, but it then dawned on me that I had no idea what I was supposed to be "changing," so thereafter I just hit F2 and the system would boot with the one DRIVE being recognized. I have booted up hundreds of times with both drives in place and I have no idea why the boot sequence is now hanging at the USB mass storage recognition. I don't really recall installing any new software or making any hardware changes. I just had to reboot for some reason or another and that is when the problems started. The USB drives are powered by an external power source. I appreciate your assistance. Is your computer losing time?I'm not sure what that means. If you are asking whether my computer is running more slowly than usual, the answer is yes.Look in Device Manager. Any yellow exclamation marks there? Is your system overclocked?No, all of the devices are OK. What is curious to me is I have never made any modifications to the clock speed or anything else important in the BIOS. I know how to use the BIOS setup, but I just don't monkey with these settings because I have no idea what many of them do. One of the things that I had done prior to this post, however, was to check overclocking, since the error message referred to it, and I verified that the setting was "auto," rather than "manual," which allows one to overclock. At the behest of one of the members above, I did reset the settings to default. In the meantime, I had done some checking on other forums and found some people who had the same problem that I did. The remedy suggested was to disable USB LEGACY Support. I did that and the problem was solved, i.e., the BIOS immediately recognizes the USB mass storage devices so fast that I don't even see that ASPECT of the boot. What I am curious about is why this error happened at all. Is there any real downside to disabling legacy USB support? I had also read that there is conflict between USB drives and Norton Ghost, which I have. If there is a remedy other than disabling USB legacy suport, I would prefer to use that less intrusive solution.

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I have 2 1-TB WD external drives. I have never had a problem with either of them before. Now, at boot-up time, the sequence hangs at identifying USB mass storage devices. The boot will recognize one, or either, of them, and I can then add them as additional drives when Windows XP loads, but I can't get beyone the USB mass storage recognition when I boot up. I have also received the following error at boot time: "Overclock failed or overvoltage failed." I checked the BIOS setup and the power is set at auto and I have never monkeyed with any of these settings so as to constitute a deviation from "Auto." Everything worked fine until just now. I have an ASUS P5WD2 motherboard with an AMI Bios. Any help would be appreciated.This may or may not help but have you tried resetting the BIOS to default settings.What changed between the last time the drives were recognized at boot and the first time they weren't (did you add any new sw or hw or change any hw settings)?Quote from: oldiesman100 on September 16, 2009, 04:07:00 PM

I have 2 1-TB WD external drives...

How are these drives powered, through the USB or through their own power ADAPTERS?Thank you for the responses. When I only plug in one of the drives, I get an error message that refers to overclocking, etc., along with the exhortation to hit F1 to change my configuration settings, or, F2 to boot with default settings. I initially hit F1, but it then dawned on me that I had no idea what I was supposed to be "changing," so thereafter I just hit F2 and the system would boot with the one DRIVE being recognized. I have booted up hundreds of times with both drives in place and I have no idea why the boot sequence is now hanging at the USB mass storage recognition.

I don't really recall installing any new software or making any hardware changes. I just had to reboot for some reason or another and that is when the problems started.

The USB drives are powered by an external power source.

I appreciate your assistance.
Is your computer losing time?I'm not sure what that means. If you are asking whether my computer is running more slowly than usual, the answer is yes.Look in Device Manager. Any yellow exclamation marks there?
Is your system overclocked?No, all of the devices are OK. What is curious to me is I have never made any modifications to the clock speed or anything else important in the BIOS. I know how to use the BIOS setup, but I just don't monkey with these settings because I have no idea what many of them do. One of the things that I had done prior to this post, however, was to check overclocking, since the error message referred to it, and I verified that the setting was "auto," rather than "manual," which allows one to overclock. At the behest of one of the members above, I did reset the settings to default.

In the meantime, I had done some checking on other forums and found some people who had the same problem that I did. The remedy suggested was to disable USB LEGACY Support. I did that and the problem was solved, i.e., the BIOS immediately recognizes the USB mass storage devices so fast that I don't even see that ASPECT of the boot. What I am curious about is why this error happened at all. Is there any real downside to disabling legacy USB support?

I had also read that there is conflict between USB drives and Norton Ghost, which I have. If there is a remedy other than disabling USB legacy suport, I would prefer to use that less intrusive solution.

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