SSD w/ HDD boot slowdown

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dyslecix

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Hi, when I received my Samsung 840 PRO 256gb.. I decided to reinstall w8. I unplugged all my other HDD's and installed windows 8, with it setup like this is booted in roughly 10 seconds. I rebooted 2-3 times with it being like this, I am also taking into account the spinning of the little circles with the windows icon, which took roughly 5 seconds. For the post screen I saw no difference in speed. Now A few reboots later I plugged in my 3 HDD's and rebooted the boot now takes 30-35 seconds, way longer.. I didn't notice a difference in the time it took to get past the post screen, but I did notice that the spinning cirlces took roughly 5-7 spins to load up to desktop, before, when I had just the ssd it took about 1.5 spins. Any idea why this is? The other drives are data drives, so i dont know what could be wrong.. Perhaps it's something with old OS files on the other HDD's. I never installed windows 8 on the other HDD's, but I remember installing Windows xp/vista/7 on some of the other ones, but I believe i formatted those drives, not sure if that messes anything up. Is there any programs that search for old OS's and let you uninstall system/os files. I know there is not an OS installed on any of the other HDD's, but I think there are some OS files. Such as system, documents and settings, that I cannot get rid of.
 
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If you had windows installed on the other drives, maybe it is waiting for you to choose. Try Right-Clicking on Computer and choosing Properties. Then go to Advanced System Settings. Startup and Recovery. Look over the first options there about OS to load and wait time. You could reduce the wait time to 0 and see if it is quicker.
 
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derekullo

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Try this

1. Boot up
2. Press control + alt + delete
3. Click the Performance Tab
4. Click Resource Moniter
5. Click the Disk Tab
6. See if anything is maxing out the Active Time.

You said it was happening during boot so windows shouldn't be affecting that, but just want to cover all the bases.
 
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dyslecix

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I have made a few adjustments, but nothing drastic, only things that take up alot of space, like the restore points etc...
Ok, I tried derekullo's suggestion and there's no wierd reading going on
 
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Hey, guys I've checked one of my HDD's - It seems to have a windows.old file in there, could this have something to do with the slowdowns of boot? Maybe it has an old os on it somewhere, but I know I can't choose another OS I boot options, so I dunno. It won't let me delete that windows.old file. Any Ideas why/how to delete?
 
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