Hey,
I've had my system running with one sata 250gb (western digital), and one ide 250gb (segate) for just over a year now without any real problems beside having to find a really long ide ribbon cable (whatever the official name is),
So I went and bought a new 640gb w.d. hdd yesterday (as well as a second 1g 667 ram stick to go with the one i had which installed without problems or changing of bootup speed before the hdd business -- didnt have a data cable at first for the new sata so i had to wait)
The idea was, to remove the IDE drive, and have two sata drives
As such i had to move the data from the ide to the new sata, so i plugged in one of the sata powercables to the new drive (all power has been on the molex cables till now) and connected it tothe motherboard in one of the available sata connection points,.. meanwhile i didnt interfere with anything else, so i left the drive stable and safe just next to the computer,
bios, windows, picked the new drive up fine,
initalised it, quick format for ntfs, it was all looking good, nothing changed
having copied the data, I powered down the computer,
disconnected the IDE drive, disconnected the original sata's molex power cable, physicaly switched the ide with the new sata, screwed it in, reconnected the power/data cable, and connected the original sata to the same sata power cable (So i didnt have as many cables inside..), doublecheckd all the cables, put the case side back on .. (unfortunately the cpu needs the fan attached to the side of the case ), powerd up,..
*yawn*
why is this taking so much longer to boot up?!?
*ponder*
I glanced over some forums trying to find something but nothing great stood out,
I thought maybe it was the page file, so i returned the page file to system managed, rebooted etc
no change (to the bootup speed)
being it was almost 1am i went to bed instead
So today, i turn it on, see its still the same,
I figure, theres going to be no harm if i put in the molex power cable i took out and connect it to the old sata,..
so now they have seperate power cables for the two drives (only, fans optical etc on a seperate molex)
Still no change
So, anyone have an ideas/suggestions how i can fix this?
(if you skipped the text in the middle, while i had my old sata+ide, it was fine, old sata+ide+new sata, it was fine (not sure if i rebooted after init'ing the new drive tho...), when i removed the ide, just had the 2 sata's ,.. it boots Sllloww in comparison)
oh, not sure if this means anything else, but now when i turn the computer off, there is a distinct half a sec around about after hearing parts turning off, and the computer power going off..
thanks
Edit::
I have since tried disconnecting the new hdd, and the dvd drive (in seperate attempts),
so with just a floppy and the old original hdd, it *still* boots/shutsdown incredibly slow now
What would cause this after installing a brand new hdd and/or then removing one of the others??
(and no the second drive, the one i removed, *was* used for the windows page file but i reset that to the C drive before i even bought the new drive, otherwise it was purely file storage .. no programs accessing at all on loadup etc)
I've had my system running with one sata 250gb (western digital), and one ide 250gb (segate) for just over a year now without any real problems beside having to find a really long ide ribbon cable (whatever the official name is),
So I went and bought a new 640gb w.d. hdd yesterday (as well as a second 1g 667 ram stick to go with the one i had which installed without problems or changing of bootup speed before the hdd business -- didnt have a data cable at first for the new sata so i had to wait)
The idea was, to remove the IDE drive, and have two sata drives
As such i had to move the data from the ide to the new sata, so i plugged in one of the sata powercables to the new drive (all power has been on the molex cables till now) and connected it tothe motherboard in one of the available sata connection points,.. meanwhile i didnt interfere with anything else, so i left the drive stable and safe just next to the computer,
bios, windows, picked the new drive up fine,
initalised it, quick format for ntfs, it was all looking good, nothing changed
having copied the data, I powered down the computer,
disconnected the IDE drive, disconnected the original sata's molex power cable, physicaly switched the ide with the new sata, screwed it in, reconnected the power/data cable, and connected the original sata to the same sata power cable (So i didnt have as many cables inside..), doublecheckd all the cables, put the case side back on .. (unfortunately the cpu needs the fan attached to the side of the case ), powerd up,..
*yawn*
why is this taking so much longer to boot up?!?
*ponder*
I glanced over some forums trying to find something but nothing great stood out,
I thought maybe it was the page file, so i returned the page file to system managed, rebooted etc
no change (to the bootup speed)
being it was almost 1am i went to bed instead
So today, i turn it on, see its still the same,
I figure, theres going to be no harm if i put in the molex power cable i took out and connect it to the old sata,..
so now they have seperate power cables for the two drives (only, fans optical etc on a seperate molex)
Still no change
So, anyone have an ideas/suggestions how i can fix this?
(if you skipped the text in the middle, while i had my old sata+ide, it was fine, old sata+ide+new sata, it was fine (not sure if i rebooted after init'ing the new drive tho...), when i removed the ide, just had the 2 sata's ,.. it boots Sllloww in comparison)
oh, not sure if this means anything else, but now when i turn the computer off, there is a distinct half a sec around about after hearing parts turning off, and the computer power going off..
thanks
Edit::
I have since tried disconnecting the new hdd, and the dvd drive (in seperate attempts),
so with just a floppy and the old original hdd, it *still* boots/shutsdown incredibly slow now
What would cause this after installing a brand new hdd and/or then removing one of the others??
(and no the second drive, the one i removed, *was* used for the windows page file but i reset that to the C drive before i even bought the new drive, otherwise it was purely file storage .. no programs accessing at all on loadup etc)