G-Drive screws up Option Restart Boot (so i have to turn it off)

i have a first generation mac pro and i have discovered after about a year and a half of problems with my Option Boot sequence (i.e. i cannot get into my windows 7 boot camp partition without major hassling) that if i turn off or unplug my external G-Drive - the boot performs flawlessly.
does anyone happen to know if there is a good fix for this or if i have to contact G-Drive tech support?
i tried a google search of "Option Restart screwed up by G Drive" and found a black hole.
thanks.

hi grant.
are you still available on this thread by any chance?!
for some silly reason i went ahead and did an RMA on this drive (likely i did not totally understand what you were telliing me or i was imagining that there was also something specific about that particular drive). in any event, i am almost positive i would have zeroed out the drive before setting it up again and now that i have installed xp and windows 7 on it i am trying to finalize things over here.
so i am back to this same deal where the drive plugged in and on prevents boot (i do see the boot screen however and can select a drive) but i have to shut down because nothing happens after selecting a drive. if i simply turn off the drive and reboot i can get into whatever boot drive i want.
we also went ahead and reset the PRAM and actually plugged the drive into the front of the machine instead of in the back. no go, same problem.
can i just ask you if i go ahead and reformat and rezero and reset up my time machine on this drive whether there is anything else i can do? i mean, i know i can try and boot to this drive before setting it up as a time machine drive, i suppose...
ideally the purpose of time machine is to have an incremental backup and if i am only going to have this when i don't forget to turn the drive back on this is sort of a problem for me.
i mean, if i am understanding correctly, zeroing out the drive would leave a driver still on the drive that came from G-Tech? or, i mean there may be OTHER information on this drive in addition to the driver that won't be wiped when zeroing out? or - er - maybe setting up time machine on this particular drive is creating some kind of issue...?
anyway, big thanks as always.

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