IDE+SATA=slow?

murdock22

murdock22

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I have an 250GB SATA as my main drive with windows on it, and an 200GB IDE for holding movies etc. when i turn on my computer it takes 2mins to enter into windows, it goes through a black screen at the bottom a white bar loads, then windows loads. If i have the IDE not hooked up it takes about 40sec to get into windows. I just installed the SATA, I had a 120GB IDE as my master before and didn't have this problem. is there any reason for this?
 
Be sure all the settings are correct for the drive. I know Western Digital drives can be very picky about this. If you have it set to "Master with slave present" but it's the master on an IDE channel, you might have problems.
 
The 200GB Maxter is set to slave, and then the SATA isn't set for anything, as it came with no jumpers and it says on the case of it, that it doesn't need them
 
If the maxtor is the only drive on the channel (ie is there anyhting on the same ribbon cable?) set it to master.
 
Do both hard drives have the same programs installed? When you first install Windows on a hard drive, it boot up very quickly because it has very little files to load, however if you use an OS thats been running for a while, or has lots of programs installed, it will take much longer to start up.
 
Okay Lets get the story straight here

Number of Drives: 2

Types of drives:
1 IDE
1 SATA
1 IDE DVD/RW/CDRW combo Drive

Setting of drives:
IDE Set as Master in postion 1 on ribbion Cable
SATA Set as Cable Select due to its Native Settings ( Can not change this setting) In Postion 1
IDE DVD/RW Drive set as Cable select (Only way that the bios and computer will boot)

Motherboard:
Asus P5N32-SLi Deluxe

The only way for the IDE drive to recogize out and operate is its setting to master, with the DVDRW drive set as CS, the hard drive or the CD will not operate or recongize out in any other configuration. This causes Windows to hang slightly during start up, takes about 2 minutes from post to full windows load to the desktop. Anyone have anything similar happen?

This problem is not caused by software, this is a true hardware problem.

I have been building PC's since the 80386's came out and have never experanced a problem like this before. I have another current machine running the identcal setup but with 2 more SATA drives, without this problem.

Got any idea's?
 
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