I've seen this problem on a couple of different forums, but have never seen a solution.
My problem is with my aluminum iMac. I'm running the latest Leopard and also Vista Ultimate through Bootcamp. I have an LG Blu Ray recorder external drive hooked up through USB, which I've identified as the problem. When this drive is plugged in, my iMac will not get past the grey screen when booting into the Windows side. It will boot into the Mac side no problem. It doesn't matter if I select Windows as the boot drive and reboot, or if I hold down the option button during boot.
I think it may have something to do with the drive being a SATA drive working through USB. I've had this issue on PC's before, and solution was always to disable legacy USB support in the the BIOS, but seeing as there is no way to do this on an iMac, I'm not sure what to do.
The weird part is that it boots fine into the Mac side, just not the Windows side, so maybe it's not the EFI??????? I don't know enough about the boot process I guess when it comes to Bootcamp.
I've tried updating everything I can. The operating systems, any firmware, USB drivers and the like to no avail.
I've tried plugging the drive directly to a USB port on the iMac and that makes no difference. I tried having only the drive plugged in with nothing else.
Help!!!
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
My problem is with my aluminum iMac. I'm running the latest Leopard and also Vista Ultimate through Bootcamp. I have an LG Blu Ray recorder external drive hooked up through USB, which I've identified as the problem. When this drive is plugged in, my iMac will not get past the grey screen when booting into the Windows side. It will boot into the Mac side no problem. It doesn't matter if I select Windows as the boot drive and reboot, or if I hold down the option button during boot.
I think it may have something to do with the drive being a SATA drive working through USB. I've had this issue on PC's before, and solution was always to disable legacy USB support in the the BIOS, but seeing as there is no way to do this on an iMac, I'm not sure what to do.
The weird part is that it boots fine into the Mac side, just not the Windows side, so maybe it's not the EFI??????? I don't know enough about the boot process I guess when it comes to Bootcamp.
I've tried updating everything I can. The operating systems, any firmware, USB drivers and the like to no avail.
I've tried plugging the drive directly to a USB port on the iMac and that makes no difference. I tried having only the drive plugged in with nothing else.
Help!!!
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike