Hi,
I have a problem that's been driving me nuts. I have an external hard drive, a Western Digital MyBook 500 Gb USB, that I use for storage. I've only ever used it for storage, never put any programs on it. Somehow, it got "integrated" into Windows XP so that Windows would start much slower than usual if this hard drive wasn't connected. This isn't true for my other two external hard drives.
With the hard drive connected, I waited only the amount of time it takes for that blue scrolling bar on the Windows load screen to move from left to right two times. I consider this pretty fast. Now, with the hard drive gone, I wait through maybe 12. If I were to reconnect the hard drive, it would be normal. I can't figure out what the hell is going on here. I've looked through my services and run Registry Mechanic a few times. Nothing seems to make it behave normally. I'm sure a fresh install would work, but I think that's a bit drastic.
Any ideas?
I have a problem that's been driving me nuts. I have an external hard drive, a Western Digital MyBook 500 Gb USB, that I use for storage. I've only ever used it for storage, never put any programs on it. Somehow, it got "integrated" into Windows XP so that Windows would start much slower than usual if this hard drive wasn't connected. This isn't true for my other two external hard drives.
With the hard drive connected, I waited only the amount of time it takes for that blue scrolling bar on the Windows load screen to move from left to right two times. I consider this pretty fast. Now, with the hard drive gone, I wait through maybe 12. If I were to reconnect the hard drive, it would be normal. I can't figure out what the hell is going on here. I've looked through my services and run Registry Mechanic a few times. Nothing seems to make it behave normally. I'm sure a fresh install would work, but I think that's a bit drastic.
Any ideas?