- Apr 3, 2005
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Long story short (sorta), awhile ago my 200gb 7200RPM Hitachi ATA HDD began booting very slowly into Windows. I'm lazy and procrastinate and didn't notice any other problems so I didn't really try to fix it, I'd just get home, turn on my computer, have a snack or something, come back, and it would be ready to log on so it wasn't that big of an inconvenience. Recently, with games like BF2 and F.E.A.R that have large/detailed levels I've noticed slow loading times. A few months ago I reformatted, hoping to remedy my problems and was dissapointed when there was no improvement. I finally got around to buying a new Seagate 80GB 7200RPM SATA drive (I figured the Hitachi was dying or something, I've had it for awhile) and just installed Windows on it. The blue bar that is displayed while windows loads completed just over 50 passes before I got to the logon screen. On the Hitachi it's been 25, sometimes 36, but overall ridiculous compared to what I know it should be and what other people have gotten (my friends load in2-5 passes regardless of their HDD and people posting reviews of this one said it was blazing fast as well as loading in about 2-3 passes). I looked through my BIOS and saw no settings that might affect my HDDs so what is going on?
Why did it take me 50 passes to load Windows on a brand new SATA 7200RPM drive with nothing installed?Any and all help/advice is appreciated
Why did it take me 50 passes to load Windows on a brand new SATA 7200RPM drive with nothing installed?Any and all help/advice is appreciated