PC boot real slow after adding SATA 2nd HD ???

[DIYITX]

Have a (8 years OLD PC): always have a IDE attached HD as boot drive , after adding a SATA HD as second drive , Boot real slow , but it boot to windows 7 ok, just real slow , what setting should I change to fix it ? Thanks

 

[mrmez]

Probably need to go into BIOS and select the boot HDD as the first, and remove others.

Whats likely happening, is BIOS is trying to boot from your new HDD. Searching for something to load, but can't find anything, so then goes to your old hdd and boots normally.

 

[DIYITX]

Probably need to go into BIOS and select the boot HDD as the first, and remove others.

Whats likely happening, is BIOS is trying to boot from your new HDD. Searching for something to load, but can't find anything, so then goes to your old hdd and boots normally.

Thanks , I try to choose the old IDE as the 1st and only boot drive , no help.
Then I try disable the new SATA 2nd drive on BIOS, but when it boot to Win 7 , the new SATA 2nd drive STILL work anyway, does anyone know why ?

The problem is : It will boot to windows , but boot real slow !!

 

[octavecode]

I had the same problem with also an old amd system and it was the sata drivers.
Windows 7 stock driver for that chipset (nvidia) was messed up, after updating the sata drivers it was all good

 

[DIYITX]

I had the same problem with also an old amd system and it was the sata drivers.
Windows 7 stock driver for that chipset (nvidia) was messed up, after updating the sata drivers it was all good

I'm sure updating the sata drivers will help the 2nd part of the booting (form seeing windows 7 boot screen "Starting Windows" to actual Desktop.

My 1st part of Booting (Form P.O.ST.)
After showing CPU and RAM , it take a long time to show the 2 Hard drive I have . (see 1st post for What I have install) , is this part also related to Windows driver issue ?

I assume the windows not even start yet at this point ??
Thanks for all the advice.

 

[octavecode]

There are way too many reasons for that.
It might be the motherboard (you could also try bios update) or the drive itself (if you can test it with another sata drive) , it might be the sata cable or even the psu.(least possible)
Also run "CrystalDiskInfo" to check the health of the HDDs.

 

[PRK2529]

update bios and in boot setting select primary boot as ide.