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protecyon

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I have a clean installation of Windows XP SP2 on a Western Digital 7200RPM SATA drive. To boot into Windows from the moment the Windows XP load screen shows up takes 3 seconds. When I plug in a second Western Digital 7200RPM IDE drive, the boot up takes 16 seconds. Why is there such a large difference in boot times when there are two drives instead of one?

Thank you,

Protecyon
 
Originally posted by: Kromis
SATA > IDE

IDE is last last generation. Really slow...doesn't transfer enough bandwidth.
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No. There is no practical performance difference between a 7200rpm SATA and a 7200rpm IDE drive.

protecyon, are you sure the ide is set to ultra DMA in device manager?
 
Yes, it is set to Ultra DMA 5 mode.

What's strange is that in both configurations Windows XP is installed on the SATA drive, the only change is that I add the blank IDE drive in addition to the SATA drive.
 
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