Title says it all, I am absolutely certain Chrome is installed on my C:/ SSD, yet sometimes when I launch a fresh instance of it, it spins up my hard drive and takes like 10 seconds to pop up. What's going on?
I'm not sure how useful it'll be if it's only on startup, but Process Explorer can tell you what files an app is accessing. Might be worth running through to see if Chrome's still hitting the hard drive.