Emergency disk not booting IF another external disk is connected

[wbrells]

Froggie, Many thanks! After a little experimenting it seems that the following steps need to be taken:

1) Power off the system
2) Insert the Emergency USB flash drive
3) Power on the system and keep tapping F12 to bring up the boot selection menu
4) BEFORE selecting the boot device, plug in the USB connected backup drive
5) In the boot device menu select the Emergency USB and hit Enter

The Emergency flash drive now boots and brings up the Hasleo program. The external backup disk is now available and can be used for restores, etc.

I'm not sure why this particular notebook system is so "fussy", but all is well now that I know the steps that need to be followed!

Thanks again,
Wayne