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I have Acronis 2011 home. and i bought a external HD ,[for storage, forgot the name] What happens is if i leave the ext HD on [ALL THE TIME] it will shut down all the time ok. but Some times when i start it up, it will CHANGE the Boot seaquence, it will have the choice of two different HD which are ,one the external and one of the CD burn drives to pick from.
This dose not happen all the time. Soooo when if reset the computer, i turn off the external HD and it starts up fine in windows XP.
I don't know if it acronis or the external HD.
tks
John

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That's not an Acronis issue.

Some BIOS don't seem to automatically move on past a non-bootable drive to look at the next drive. Mine is like that. I have USB set as higher boot priority than internal HD, so that I can boot from USB. If I leave an external HD connected when I try to boot to Windows, boot proceess will fail and stop on the external HD. I must boot without the external HD connected.