Don't do this, it will mess up your whole boot sequence. Here's what happened.
I wanted to recharge my iPod before I went to bed last night so I stuck it into its cradle can called it a night. FWIW, I have a 3G 20GB iPod connected via USB 2.0 for transfers, the firewire end of the Apple USB/firewire cable is connect to the AC adapter which lets me recharge my iPod while my computer is off. When I went to turn on my computer this morning I noticed that it took a little longer than usual to start up but never booted into Windows XP! All I got was a black screen with a short line of garbled text and a blinking cursor. Reboot. Same thing happened the second time around but this time I decided to press the space bar at the black screen with garbled text, the computer returned with the typical message when it is looking for bootable media (...invalid boot media, insert a disk and press a key to continue...).
In the BIOS, I noticed that my iPod, which was still attached showed up as the first boot device and there were no other via options to change, I believe the other options were my floppy drive and a non-bootable hard drive (Boot Device Priority). In the hard drive section of the Boot Settings Configuration, my iPod showed up as the only bootable hard drive (!) none of my 4 hard drives (which are connected to a Promise TX133 controller) showed up at all.
However, after rebooting without changing a thing, removing my iPod from its cradle and going back into the BIOS to change everything back to normal and rebooting, everything was fine.
I wanted to recharge my iPod before I went to bed last night so I stuck it into its cradle can called it a night. FWIW, I have a 3G 20GB iPod connected via USB 2.0 for transfers, the firewire end of the Apple USB/firewire cable is connect to the AC adapter which lets me recharge my iPod while my computer is off. When I went to turn on my computer this morning I noticed that it took a little longer than usual to start up but never booted into Windows XP! All I got was a black screen with a short line of garbled text and a blinking cursor. Reboot. Same thing happened the second time around but this time I decided to press the space bar at the black screen with garbled text, the computer returned with the typical message when it is looking for bootable media (...invalid boot media, insert a disk and press a key to continue...).
In the BIOS, I noticed that my iPod, which was still attached showed up as the first boot device and there were no other via options to change, I believe the other options were my floppy drive and a non-bootable hard drive (Boot Device Priority). In the hard drive section of the Boot Settings Configuration, my iPod showed up as the only bootable hard drive (!) none of my 4 hard drives (which are connected to a Promise TX133 controller) showed up at all.
However, after rebooting without changing a thing, removing my iPod from its cradle and going back into the BIOS to change everything back to normal and rebooting, everything was fine.
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