Problem adding new HDD

redeye_uk · 31 Oct 2009 at 12:28

Hi all,

I have just purchased a new HDD (1TB Sammy F3), and am having trouble starting my machine with it attached.

I currently have 2 x 500Gb Sammy F1's, Asus Maximus Formula SE, Q6600. When I plugged in the new HDD and booted up the bios gave me a message (insert media to boot from). I then unplugged the new HDD and the machine booted no problem.

So I then tried swapping round some of the SATA connections and managed to get it to boot with the new HDD attached, but it took a LONG time to get into windows (Win7 Pro). Once finally in it dl some drivers for the HDD and prompted me I would need to restart, which i duely did. It then took even longer to boot into windows (somewhere in the region of 25 mins to get to the desktop). Once finally in everythings was strange - my wireless was not connected, anti virus hadnt loaded etc and the machine was extremely slow and unresponsive.

I shut the machine down, unplugged the new HDD and rebooted, now everything is fine!

Can anyone see the error of the ways or suggest what might be wrong?

Thanks

J.B · 31 Oct 2009 at 12:49

Try a different SATA cable mate.

batchie · 31 Oct 2009 at 12:53

check boot order in the bios when i added my new crucial ssd it was still selecting my sammy f3 as primary boot device

redeye_uk · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:03

thanks for the reply's guys

I have sorted it now, just rejigged the SATA connectors on the mobo and all seems to be working fine now

redeye_uk · 11 Dec 2009 at 16:36

Seems things arent running as smoothly as I thought.

After booting up my comp the new HDD makes a lot of noise (like its under a lot of load). Any attempts to access the disk take 5-10 seconds. Everything just seems a little slower for a while - delay showing win 7 login screen, delay loading desktop, delay opening browser etc.....
But then after about 15 mins or so this sorts itself out and behaves 'normally'.

Am slightly miffed as to why adding a new data disk is causing so many problems. Are there any disk settings I can check? Does it matter what sata ports I connect drives to? Anything in the bios i can check?