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Hey! As the title says. I have a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 6 Gb/s but it takes like 2 minutes to start and get to desktop. Are there drivers needed? Is this how it is? And I accidently made Spotify load up with windows, do I have to reinstall spotify to get that away? Thanks
 
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HDDs don't need a driver. And a 6 GB/s drive is no faster than a 3 GB/s drive because mechanical drives cannot even saturate SATA II. Your boot time is probably slowed down by all the junk you may have loading at boot-up.
1) Look in your Windows TRAY... how many items are running?
2) Then look in System Configuration/Start Up... how many items are checked to start with Windows?
3) Registry errors can slow down boot time too. Run CCleaner and have it do the Clean and Registry portions both. You may have to run it more than once; until it comes back clean.
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HDDs don't need a driver. And a 6 GB/s drive is no faster than a 3 GB/s drive because mechanical drives cannot even saturate SATA II. Your boot time is probably slowed down by all the junk you may have loading at boot-up.
1) Look in your Windows TRAY... how many items are running?
2) Then look in System Configuration/Start Up... how many items are checked to start with Windows?
3) Registry errors can slow down boot time too. Run CCleaner and have it do the Clean and Registry portions both. You may have to run it more than once; until it comes back clean.
 
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Where can I find TRAY and system configuration?
 
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Okay, I ran CCleaner got rid of a lot of things atleast from what I can see. I have 6 things in my tray, not too much and I unmarked like 8 objects in the System config. If it helps, I don't know, anyways thanks for your time! I will reboot later to see if there is change! Thanks!
 
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If you want the HDD to boot even faster and not invest in the cost and extra work of a SSD...
I put one of these in one of my old Phenom II X4 machines: http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/readycache/
Just add it to your system, run the software, and it becomes a persistent cache to your HDD. My old PhII machine boots to the desktop in 40 seconds... including the time it takes to log onto my home network.

Here's a review of it: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/10/17/sandisk_readycache_32gb_ssd_review/#.Un8IfOKspvA
 
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