External HD & Booting?

Humm....the fastboot/quickboot option doesn't concern the external hard drive/USB/etc..., but the system memory test.

But you can speed up the boot time by switching the boot order in the BIOS. Put first the hard drive, so the computer will not check the CD-Rom then the external hard drive or what ever flash/USB/external memory plugged...

At least a good boot order should be 1-CD-Rom, 2-Hard drive, 3-floppy, 4-other or whatever your BIOS allow you to do.

The delay is due to the length of the time out for each device before booting on the hard drive.

Good luck.

I had the same problem. I found that if you switch off the ext HD when you turn off the PC (which you should do anyway), you start up by boothing the PC first and then turn on the Ext HD when it has booted you will eliminate this problem.

normally caused by the system bios POST settings

reboot, enter the BIOS settings before windows starts (by usually pressing the delete, F1, or some other key just after powering on) and enable fastboot/quickboot

No which couldn't artwork. you won't be able to 'replica' gadget information and anticipate it to be a bootable force. you'll ought to position in the gadget to the exterior force, even then some BIOS's gained't enable booting from an exterior force.