I have an old dell inspiron 531 that I trying to use as a file server but when I plug in the 4tb seagate backup plus that is going to be the main storage for it, it hangs on the boot up and won't even let me into bios. it has the latest bios that I could find for it and the drive works fine once it has booted up and their are no partitions on it. any help would be much appreciated
So the OS is not on the external drive? If so, is the boot order in bios set to not look for USB HDD's before looking at the internal drive with the OS?
no the boot order is internal hard drive and then cd-drive, that's it