Booting up from wrong harddrive/ partition causing slow system start up

69ingChipmunkzz

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yesterday while trying to figure out the Win 8 update loop for the 4th time, I did Shift+F8 on the Motherboard boot up screen witht the Win8 disk boot up disk in. It asked me to choose a harddrive to boot up on, it gave me a load of options;
please note i have a 1tb harddrive (into 2 partitions 750 and 250gb) and an old laptop HHD of 250gb.
There were about 6 different options to choose from, all with long wired names. (It had the amount of MB in each harddrive and I chose the one nearest 1tb, something like 998500mb [i think thats the right amount of 0s])
but since i turned it on today, it took about 30-40 seconds to boot up which is like 20 seconds more than it usually does.
I've had to boot up a few times today and each time it was really slow !
whats wrong!?
 

Jim_L9

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You should only install an operating system with the drive you intend to boot from to prevent booting issues. You could remove the other drive and see if it boots. If it doesn't you can boot from your Win8 disk and make the disk bootable. I know you can do it from the GUI, but bootsect.exe will work from the command line.