Stopping a computer reading a USB on boot

I have a USB key with some music on plugged into my computer. However, when I reboot it will read the USB key which will then stop the boot up. Any ideas how I can stop this on vista? Cheers

 

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It's not a Vista issue. You'd have to go into your BIOS by pressing either Del or whatever the designated key is and change the hard disk boot priority so that your hard drive and not the USB stick is first priority. Of course, the much easier solution is to just unplug the USB stick.

 

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Bizzare.

I've never seen a flash drive auto-run...

Must be some odd setting you've got going.

 

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My bootup always locks up when I leave my ipod plugged in and it's not anywhere in the boot list. Would be nice to figure out how to stop it from happening because it's a pain in the ass when I forget and leave it plugged in and have to manually restart.

 

What model motherboard do you have Invert?

 

BIOS settings...change them

BIOS access keys are: DEL, F1, F2, F8, F11, ESC, CTRL-ALT-ESC, CTRL-ALT-ENTER

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look for tab called "booting"

use arrow keys and enter

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look for USB boot...choose enable or disable by clicking enter

 

Mine has setting for shoe.

Did i spell shoe wrong?

 

Not odd, my laptop came with the USB key as the first boot device. It's quite handy, you can install other OS's onto cheap USB sticks, Ubuntu, W2K for faster gaming, or whatnot, and just boot up off them. Also, as the swapfiles are on memory, the installs have a performance boost.

You don't need to mess with bootloaders, or partitioned disks, the install just sees your regular C drive as a whole.