remove secondary harddrive

[Malcolm]

What am I doing wrong?

When I remove my secondary hard drive and try to
access "My Computer" - the window opens up and a flashlight
(panning back and forth) appears in the middle. I let this
go on for about 10min.

When I stick the hard drive back in and try to open "My
Computer" it pops up right away.

Malcolm

 

[Zoltan Fekete]

Silly question, did you reboot after removing your secondary hard drive?
What kind of the rack are you using for your secondary hdd?

Best regards,

 

[*** Taz Devil ***]

This sounds like you have something installed on the drive
that you have removed that is still registered with the
windows boot drive. I recommend you replace your drive and
uninstall anything that was using the drive. The
flashlight is telling you that windows is trying to locate
a file/drive and is searching for it. Do you have the
drive copied to your desktop as a shortcut, or into the
quick start bar at the bottom of your screen (next to the
start button). There are quite a few reasons this could be
happening but the ones I have described above would seem
to be the main reasons for your machine to be searching
for a drive/program.