USB External Drive won't allow reboot

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Brice

I bought a WD 80 gig USB 2.0 drive for my XP computer.
Install went fine with the quick install guide. Drive was
recognized by XP.
I can read & write to it. However, when I try to reboot
or cold start, BIOS hangs at the first screen. The only
way I can reboot is to disconnect the drive & reset the
computer. I am using a ABIT SR7-8X motherboard & have
other USB 2.0 devices installed without difficulty. I
have tried about everything I can think of to correct the
problem. Any ideas here?
 
Hi,
Even I am facing the same problem after I connected a
Wireless Adapter to the USB port on my HP Pavilion
Notebook. I have Windows XP Home Edition installed on my
laptop.
The Wireless adapter was installed successfully and was
working fine till I restarted the machine. On restart, the
system would not proceed further to Bios with the Adapter
connected to the USB.I have removed the adapter and it
asked me for a safe boot or normal boot for which I
selected normal boot. Then it would get stuck up at the
Windows XP logo for sometime and display an error message
indicating the program 'HPWirelessMgr.exe' has tried
referencing a memory location at 0x00000000. Click OK to
close the program or cancel to debug the program.
I have tried both the options but the login page would not
appear.
Please let me know any solution to this problem.
Thanks
 
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