XP boots slowly after removing one of my IDE harddrives...

[Guest]

Hi

I have windows xp pro and I have a 40GB drive and an older 13GB drive. The 13GB drive is almost dead, so I removed the drive and now windows xp takes forever to boot up. Very strange. XP just sits at the boot screen that has a "progress bar" and just waits. It can take up to 3 minutes for it to boot. I have changed the BIOS and told it that there is no drive in that spot anymore. I have run bootvis.exe without luck (XP apparently runs this tool or some other tool anyway)

Any ideas

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Did you have any applications installed on the 13Gb drive?

Windows will be slow booting if it has to resolve the fact that the registy entries pointing to that drive are non-functional.

Windows will still have shortcuts to documents etc on that drive and these will also slow it down.

Get Norton System tools and let it run a full diagnostic: it will automatically remove all those bad entries.

 

[Guest]

The strange thing is that when I installed XP from the beginning I only had my 40GB drive. It booted slow, and then I decided I needed another 13GB for backup. Installed the drive and it booted much faster

-Hinke

 

[Hinke]

Problem solved!

I went into the device manager and disables the IDE
channels not used by the system. Now it boots in around 30
seconds!

-Hinke