Slow Startup after Adding new SATA HD

[englishteacher]

I just added a new SATA Hard Drive two days ago to change one of my HD that is failing (it was IDE (ATA)HD), after this HD was installed I always get slow startup on Windows. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10 mintues after Welcome screen (in Desktop Screen).

For more information:

The SATA HD type is Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB.

This is the FIRST SATA HD that I installed in my PC.

I had other two HD which is IDE (ATA) HD. One of them is which I installed my Windows.

The SATA HD shows up as ST316021 5AS SCSI Disk Device.

There are SCSI/RAID Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller installed.

The SATA HD doesn't appear as Master/Slave in BIOS. (Is this normal?)

As an additional information, the person who installed/added this HD and the Controllers is a person in the Computer Store where I bought the SATA HD. He said it was fine (the slow boot was caused due the SATA HD used different cable).

Does that true? If not, I wonder why he said it like that and plsese help me to solve this problem

[davin]

I just added a new SATA Hard Drive two days ago to change one of my HD that is failing (it was IDE (ATA)HD), after this HD was installed I always get slow startup on Windows. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10 mintues after Welcome screen (in Desktop Screen).

For more information:

The SATA HD type is Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB.

This is the FIRST SATA HD that I installed in my PC.

I had other two HD which is IDE (ATA) HD. One of them is which I installed my Windows.

The SATA HD shows up as ST316021 5AS SCSI Disk Device.

There are SCSI/RAID Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller installed.

The SATA HD doesn't appear as Master/Slave in BIOS. (Is this normal?)

As an additional information, the person who installed/added this HD and the Controllers is a person in the Computer Store where I bought the SATA HD. He said it was fine (the slow boot was caused due the SATA HD used different cable).

Does that true? If not, I wonder why he said it like that and plsese help me to solve this problem

SATA Disk are faster then IDE or ATA disk.....

This is too much "Windows. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10 mintues after Welcome screen (in Desktop Screen)."

Check your sata cable replace it with another one or check your hard disk on other computer...

You can reformat your hard disk ...

[ced]

I just added a new SATA Hard Drive two days ago to change one of my HD that is failing (it was IDE (ATA)HD), after this HD was installed I always get slow startup on Windows. 1-3 minutes at Window XP Screen, then about 5-10 mintues after Welcome screen (in Desktop Screen).

For more information:

The SATA HD type is Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB.

This is the FIRST SATA HD that I installed in my PC.

I had other two HD which is IDE (ATA) HD. One of them is which I installed my Windows.

The SATA HD shows up as ST316021 5AS SCSI Disk Device.

There are SCSI/RAID Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller installed.

The SATA HD doesn't appear as Master/Slave in BIOS. (Is this normal?)

As an additional information, the person who installed/added this HD and the Controllers is a person in the Computer Store where I bought the SATA HD. He said it was fine (the slow boot was caused due the SATA HD used different cable).

Does that true? If not, I wonder why he said it like that and plsese help me to solve this problem

did you try to reinstall windows after adding the new disk? or did you just move the files to the new HDD. (this shouldn't work anyway.)

trying to replace the cable can help too, use one that clicks itself in a lock, so you get a reliable data transfer.

further, look in the windows event viewer for any HDD errors.

S-ata is a LOT faster than the old IDE disks, the new cable doesn't have to do a thing with the slow speed.

ced