WD My Book hangs my PC on boot up

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I went into the Bios last night and the boot order was set to:

  1. Onboard or USB Floppy Drive (Not Present)

  2. Onboard SATA Hard Drive (Not Present)

  3. Samsung SP2504C

  4. Onboard or USB CD Rom Drive

  5. USB Drive

I removed #1 and my computer will now boot up with the drive attached.  But, I don’t understand why it would be seeing the WD drive as a floppy drive.  I have other external USB drives connected which have never caused me a problem.  So, although I seem to have gotten around the problem, I’m not sure that I feel like I’ve solved it.