Hard drive boot up.... long pause

[clkanski]

I recently had to switch the hard drive in my Gateway 450 laptop. It was slowly dying. I replaced the 20 gig IBM hard drive with a Gateway provided Hitachi 30 gig. Now when I boot up, there is a long pause, about 25 to 30 seconds, between when the bios is done posting and when the Windows logo appears on the screen. This use to be around 3 to 5 seconds. The hard drive light is not blinking, so I don't think there is much activity going on with the drive. It's as if some command has to time out before it continues.

I tried messing with the jumper, but to no end. I currently do not have a jumper placed, this is how the old drive was configured. I think this sets it to be a master.

Any suggestions?

[scuzzman]

Is there an auto-detection in place in the computer's BIOS for additional disks? If so, disable it for drives not installed and this should remedy the lag.

[clkanski]

The bios is surprisingly simple. No such setting.

I've messed with all the setting, and nothing has worked. There are 2 channels, the primary master is the hard drive, and the secondary master is the cd rom drive. There doesn't appear to be any slaves on either channel. I tried acknowleging the primary channel only, but this did not help.

[korgg]

Try to set your hdd as Master or Slave.. Put the pin in the right position...

Maybe there is no setting with no pin.. I had this kind of trouble with Western digital hdd where there is a difference between master with slave and master single... And you should look on top of your hdd for a drawing of pin settings...