External Hard Drive Problems

[Jayse196]

Hi everybody.

I am running the Herd 5 cd of Feisty on my laptop (HP dv6000). I also have Windows XP on a hard drive I have hooked up to my laptop via USB. The boot order is set to load the USB HDD before the internal HDD. However, whenever I boot up the USB HDD, I get the blue screen of death for a few seconds and then it automatically restarts.

The same thing happened to me when I was running Edgy, so I doubt it's a Feisty problem.

Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong?
thanks for all your help.

[penguin.ch]

Re: External Hard Drive Problems

whenever I boot up the USB HDD, I get the blue screen of death for a few seconds and then it automatically restarts.

Which means that Windoze crashes while attempting to boot ... it's not even a Linux problem, I'd say :P