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Guys I need some help please - paying customer here...

I accidentally selected my 3GB usb boot (grub) drive thinking it was my large 5TB usb drive.... This is because BM does not show my 5TB usb drive. How can I make BM not use my 3GB usb boot drive - meaning make this drive say NOT READY? I already uninstalled and reinstalled BM and it still says "READY".

I need to know how to make sure my system will boot from this 3GB usb boot drive again... any commands to use to ensure this? The 3GB usb boot drive is /dev/sdd1.

I also need to know how I can make BM see my 5TB usb drive so I can use it. This drive is /dev/sda.

Any help would be greatly appreciated before my system reboots unexpectedly.
Friday, December 22 2017, 06:34 PM
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    Friday, December 22 2017, 10:28 PM - #Permalink
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    Isn't it a boot option in your BIOS? If you get that to work, either reformat the USB drive which will blank the boot sector or blank the boot sector with dd (google is your friend here)
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    Saturday, December 23 2017, 09:21 AM - #Permalink
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    Thinking about it, and I don't use BMB, I would expect that your USB backup device needs to be bootable in order to boot up from it and restore from it in a bare metal way. All you need to do is fix your boot order in the BIOS. Without knowing the motherboard I can't tell you how to do that. It may just be a parameter which allows USB boot or a boot order list where you need to put the HDD above the USB device, or a primary and secondary boot device and so on. I've seen a lot of different ways in the BIOS. Also note that in a modern BIOS you can often hit f12 to select the boot device for that boot up giving you an easy way to temporarily override the normal boot order, say if you need to boot from USB to do a bare metal restore.
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    Tuesday, March 03 2020, 11:01 AM - #Permalink
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    Delete the file on the USB disk called 'INITIALIZED'. BMB looks for that file; if it finds it, it classes that disk as being one it can use to save backups. If it's not there, BMB ignores the disk. Note that if BMB finds multiple disks with this file on it, it will save backup to both(all) drives.
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