Thinkpad Advance Dock hard drive using ultra bay adapter
I just added an extra hard drive in my Advance Dock. I initialized it and formatted it. I can copy files to it. Everything seems fine except that I cannot boot the computer with the hard drive inserted in the dock. It locks up at the Lenovo splash screen - doesn't even get to the point that it's trying to load Windows Vista.
Any idea how to move past this? It's a pain to have to remove and reinsert the hard drive every time I boot. Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.
After spending about four hours on the phone with Lenovo support, installing updates (at their direction) that corrupted other programs, installing new docking station they sent, still no resolution.
Called my dell support guy. He had the answer for me off the top of his head. No research, no digging thru KB articles.
I am posting the resolution here in hopes that it will help some other poor soul who experienced my issue.
Go into BIOS. Go to Config. Go to USB. Disable the option to boot from USB devices.
Computer now boots fine with hard disk installed in dock. No issues. Now if I can just fix my other programs that got broken....
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