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Hardrive making pc slow?
Hi I just bought a Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache [RPM not listed] and its making my pc slow it usually takes 30-45 Seconds to boot up but when I plugged in this second hardrive it took 10 minutes to boot up and it was freezing and running slow btw computer is intel i3 3.40ghz 4gb ram motherboard is biostar h77mu3 please help it will be appreciated
3 Answers
- Joe B.Lv 67 years ago
I'm far from an expert, but it could just be the nature of the beast. I've got an internal 1tb drive and my computer boots completely in 35 seconds. I recently added two 1.5tb USB drives and with one of them plugged in it slowed my boot time to 2:30. With both of them plugged in it takes 3:00.
I've searched the Internet for a solution and haven't found one so I just leave them unplugged when booting and if I need them, I plug them in after boot. It only takes my computer about 10-15 seconds to recognize they are there.
- Anonymous7 years ago
If your hard drive ( any of them ) has a bad cable, or some bad sectors, it could slow down windows quite dramatically. I would format the new HDD. If the problem still persists, I would suspect something with your primary hdd. It could be a stupid thing, like a loose hdd cable which you accidentaly pulled when inserting the new hdd.
- Anonymous7 years ago
May be your Hard drive is infected or fragmented. Secure the hard drive and use disk defragmenter.
