SATA Hard Drive

[Guest]

I just received a new Dell XPS computer and put in a second SATA hard drive
for storage. I installed the 2nd drive and bios picked it and recognized it.
I formatted the drive in disk management with NTFS. Now when I boot the PC,
it takes forever to boot up, about 1 minute. I checked the connections on the
mainboard and it's on SATA1, original drive is on SATA0. Should i have
installed or formatted it differently? Any suggestions would be GREATLY
appreciated! Not sure what to try.

 

[R. McCarty]

If the additional drive causes an extended Boot time, then I would check
BIOS setup for boot devices and ordering. Perhaps, BIOS is attempting
to boot the new drive before the original SATA drive.

 

[Guest]

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Try pull of the new hard drive. If the booting time is fast enough, then
check the pin for the drive. It determines whethe the drive is Master, Slave,
etc.
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[R. McCarty]

SATA (Serial ATA) is a single channel, device technology.
There are no M/S jumpers on SATA drives.

(From [Tsuniper-X])
Try pull of the new hard drive. If the booting time is fast enough, then
check the pin for the drive. It determines whethe the drive is Master,
Slave,
etc.
--
[W]hat''s
[C]hris''s
[D]ecision
for
[C]ompany?
Tsuniper-X -> ID -> 1.

I just received a new Dell XPS computer and put in a second SATA hard
drive
for storage. I installed the 2nd drive and bios picked it and recognized
it.
I formatted the drive in disk management with NTFS. Now when I boot the
PC,
it takes forever to boot up, about 1 minute. I checked the connections on
the
mainboard and it's on SATA1, original drive is on SATA0. Should i have
installed or formatted it differently? Any suggestions would be GREATLY
appreciated! Not sure what to try.

 

[Guest]

You are joking aren't you? One minute boot time and you're complaining? LOL
LOL. That's absurd. Be satisfied. Even on a clean install\system I can barely
achieve under one minute let alone with added hardware to be detected and
set. LOL If that's all you have to complain about be thankful. It could be
much worse.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Now when I boot the PC, it takes forever to boot up, about 1 minute.

One minute is "forever"?

One minute is excellent, and most people's computers take at least that
long. Learn a little patience.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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You are joking aren't you? One minute boot time and you're
complaining? LOL LOL. That's absurd. Be satisfied. Even on a clean
install\system I can barely achieve under one minute let alone with
added hardware to be detected and set. LOL If that's all you have to
complain about be thankful. It could be much worse.

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[Guest]

I set up the second drive as a storage drive with the utility CD that came
with the drive. The PC seems to be getting worse and now seems to take for
ever to shut down as well (4 minutes on both startup and shutdown,
progressively worse). Should I set-up the second drive as bootable as well
and still boot off the original drive? Should I re-install and format and let
the OS pick-up the new drive and let it recognize and set-up the way it wants
to?

 

[Paul Knudsen]

I set up the second drive as a storage drive with the utility CD that came
with the drive. The PC seems to be getting worse and now seems to take for
ever to shut down as well (4 minutes on both startup and shutdown,
progressively worse). Should I set-up the second drive as bootable as well
and still boot off the original drive? Should I re-install and format and let
the OS pick-up the new drive and let it recognize and set-up the way it wants
to?

Kind of drastic. Do a virus/malware scan first.