USB Drive Keeps Server From Booting / Rebooting
I find myself giving this little tip to someone every couple of months so I thought I would stick it up here. If you have recently added a USB Drive to backup to and find your server gets stuck when you try to reboot, you can almost always solve this by repartitioning the USB drive as an “Extended Partition”, that way the system knows to not even consider it when it enumerates the boot devices.
Note: when you repartition the drive you will lose any data currently on it, so if there is stuff you care about on it copy it off somewhere else first.
To repartition the drive, right click on it in Drive Manager and click “Delete Partition”
Then right click again and click “Create Partition” on the next menu click “Extended Partition” and adjust the size or leave the defualt to use the entire drive.
Now right click once more and choose “Create Logical Drive” at that point you can adjust the size or just leave the default to use the entire partition.