Longer startup duration following hard disk installation
Longer startup duration following hard disk installation
Good morning everyone! I recently added a 2TB hard drive to my Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop running Windows 10. Before, I used a 250GB SSD. After installing the new drive, I renamed it and moved all games there while keeping the SSD as is. I’ve observed that booting now takes longer, waiting on the Dell screen. It feels slower than before. Additionally, when watching YouTube videos, I sometimes see audio play but no video—just a black screen. When I refresh the page, everything works again, though it happens occasionally. I’m pretty sure this is just a setup issue; I only changed the drive name and format without adjusting any settings. Anyone have suggestions to fix this?
I faced a similar problem too—I upgraded to an SSD and swapped the HDD for an SDD drive on my system. Windows started loading slowly. It seems there were two factors: first, I connected the HDD's SATA cable to port 3 on my motherboard (it was actually an SSD with SATA 1, but the HDD with SATA 2 was slow), and second, I switched the IDE mode to AHCI in BIOS. Now everything loads properly.
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It might have been an issue right from the start after installation, before any formatting. The system works normally now, so it seems like a configuration problem. I followed a YouTube tutorial to format and label the drive through the computer management settings.
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In the computer management interface, it appeared under the SSD section before formatting, but it wasn't visible at all—only the C: OS SSD was shown. Now it's showing up on the Dell display, with spinning circles beneath the Dell logo and the OS icon appearing correctly.