I've got an odd problem with the (external) drive that Ultimate Edition is installed on.
The way i've got my laptop configured is to bring up the vista bootloader first when it's turned on. That then has an entry for vista, and a entry that starts grub. Once grub is loaded, it then boots the first entry after 1 second.
Both grub, and Ultimate Edition are on an external USB drive. Lately when booting, the drive has spun up in the bios, but when Ultimate Edition starts looking for the files needed to boot, it doesn't always seem to spin up.
I have usually been able to get round this by booting in recovery mode, which before now, the drive has always spun up in, but today when I tried the same thing, I just got an error along the lines of:
Cannot read port 7. Maybe the USB cable is bad.
i eventually got it to boot, but it took almost 20 tries.
The odd thing is, it always spins up in windows, and once it has spun up during the boot of Ultimate Edition, it's usually fine after that. It only seems to be if my laptop's been off for a while that it won't work, so i'm not 100% sure that the hardware has gone bad
I've tried a different USB cable, and also tried a different port on my USB hub, but that doesn't make any difference. I've also tried it plugged directly into my laptop, but I get the same error on all USB ports.
Has anyone got any idea on either how to get it working properly again, or (this is probably a long shot), a way to stop Ultimate Edition resetting the USB ports when it boots, as, as I said above, the drive always spins up during the BIOS portion of the boot.