Drive booting question.

[James Wiggin]

Over the past 3 years I have been adding storage drives to my setup. First drive 3 years ago was a Seagate Green 2TB with windows 7, then I added a WD Raptor drive with windows 7 and finally a Samsung EVO SSD with windows 7. Up until 2 weeks ago these were running in IDE mode and I would hit F11 boot menu to pick the drive I wanted to load.

Well my SSD was never very fast when I ran benchmarks on it until I discovered AHCI mode however it always took 39-46 seconds to boot up. Tonight I did some case work and decided to perform some cable management and while in there, I left the 2 HDDs unplugged. Upon bootup it asked me to select an OS and win7 was of course the only choice to make and it loaded. Now the drive boots in about 12-15 seconds. Also the scores on it increased.

My question is what was wrong before and how can I re-plug the other drives in without losing the quick speed and performance of my SSD? I assume I was doing something wrong this entire time.

THanks,
James

 

[Reyaz123]

You can re-plug in your other drives, and go to the boot priority tab in your BIOS.
From the boot priority tab, simply disable the other devices you aren't using to boot from (hard drive model numbers will be listed in here)

Or move your SSD in the boot priority tab to the top of that list. Hope it helps.