<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Is the drive partitioned with a boot switch added? I seem to recall this being an issue with manually partitioned drives back before I didn’t care about partitioning. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2019, at 10:36 PM, Jeff Chapin <<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com" class="">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Is the boot device formatted for a legacy boot, or UEFI boot? Is the desktop configured to boot that method?<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:08 PM Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""> Shalom<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm having trouble booting from an external drive that</div><div class="">has a usb interface. I can boot from the drive with </div><div class="">either of my laptops, but not from my desktop. The</div><div class="">desktop has a fairly new gigabyte motherboard. I've </div><div class="">tried different boot sequences, but it either boots from </div><div class="">the desktop's internal drive or it says: Reboot and </div><div class="">select proper boot device or insert boot media in </div><div class="">selected boot device and press a key.</div><div class="">--------------------------</div><div class="">I've tried using different usb ports on the desktop.</div><div class="">The only idea I have is doing a bios update. I don't</div><div class="">have any idea if that would help, but don't know what</div><div class="">else to try. Any other ideas? Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brian</div><div class="">Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again.</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards/graphs/traffic" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards</a> <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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