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Huge boot slow down since new hdd added

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ziggo0

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Apr 27, 2004
I just added a Seagate 7200rpm 80gb to my computer. I currently have another hard disk in there.

(IDE 0)
Master - Western Digital 5400rpm 60gb
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Slave - Seagate 7200 rpm digital 80gb

I have an Abit NF7-S rev 2. They are both on the same IDE channel using a brand new cable. My problem is, once it get passed the bios and it starts to boot windows, it will hang for like 30 seconds at a black screen, then show the xp logo and boot. This is getting so annoying i tryed a reformat and my problem still goes unsolved :'( Has anyone had this type of problem?
 
this happened to me with a WD drive. Everything was REALLLLLY slow and then windows wouldnt boot, i had the wrong jumper setting, on the WD drive i just had to take the jumper out completely. check your jumper... if its not that i dunno im only a novice.

maybe you could check your bios IDE settings are set to auto, they could be set up for a slower/older drive...?
 
On most newer WD drivers, taking the jumper out makes it master/single, when i had it at the top of the ide cable, i had no jumper. I just tryed to put the seagate at the top (master) and the wd at the bottom (slave) and my problem still exists. It was not doing this before i added the new seagate drive, i just unplugged the drive, and booted computer, it worked perfectly. It seems to me that im doing something wrong with the seagate drive. I have an old 8.4gig seagate but since this is a newer one, am i doing something wrong? :bang head <---been up since 4 am trying to get this to work :'(
 
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