Question Question on my M.2 slow start

[Ksan]

My computer has a M.2 as the main drive and I then have two 2-TB standard Hard Drives for storage. The wall socket in my home was very old and the other day it burnt out. This made one of my regular storage drives give up the ghost but everything else seems to be good, except my M.2 is now taking up to 20 minutes on boot up. I have a lot of programs and steam games on the drive that failed, and I am wondering if this could be the reason for the M.2 taking so long to boot? Maybe if I wasn't so lazy, and would just take the drive out of my computer I would know, but I'm thinking the M.2 was damaged also but I'm not sure. I've been so busy with work and other things I've just not removed the dead hard drive but will get to it this week. Thank you to anyone offering any advice.

 

[Lutfij]

It's possible that it took more than just your HDD...perhaps everything else hooked up to the PSU. You might want to backup al data or keep a list of all the apps you use, since you can download and reinstall them. It's your own personal data that you can't get back.

 

[SkyNetRising]

My computer has a M.2 as the main drive and I then have two 2-TB standard Hard Drives for storage. The wall socket in my home was very old and the other day it burnt out. This made one of my regular storage drives give up the ghost but everything else seems to be good, except my M.2 is now taking up to 20 minutes on boot up.

Disconnect dead HDD - both cables (data and power).

 

[Ksan]

Disconnect dead HDD - both cables (data and power).

You would have thought I would be smart enough to think of that. I wasn't doing it because I didn't want to break the computer down to get the hard drive out, but with your post I just unplugged it, reached in and unplugged the power and data cables and it is working perfectly now. The M.2 boots up in seconds again. Thank you very much for telling an idiot (me) what he should have thought of on his own. Thank you both for taking the time to help me.