Long Shutdown time - Please read!

Ahxn._69 · November 23, 2020

I installed a new ssd on my laptop along with a hdd caddy as the 5400 rpm hdd was really slow beforehand. After installing the ssd on the caddy, it was working just fine. When I newly installed windows 10, problems started arising. The laptop took 10 minutes straight up tor respond after i clicked restart now on the restart page of the installer. Then, it was working fine. After that, when it was time to update and restart, it took the same 10 mins for the main bios menu to appear on the display. Now, I have two questions in total, and I will be thankful to anyone properly answering it.

1) What can I do to solve the aforementioned problem?

2) I had a 500gb hdd beforehand, of which 465gb was usable. But, after I installed windows 10, it showed only 385gb available. I looked up on disk management and saw that 78gb was still allocated, although I formatted that partition, it still has some system files, and it doesn't show up in This PC. I have the picture below. Can these two problems be related?

WhitetailAni · November 23, 2020

It's not mounted.

You will need to mount the disk by assigning it a drive letter.

tim0901 · November 23, 2020

I'm very confused as to why you have 3 HDD partitions on that drive, but I'm not going to question it as it probably isn't related.

1) If you remove the HDD from your system, does it still boot slowly?

2) If you don't want anything on your HDD, you can just delete the partitions from within Disk Management. Right click->delete volume. Once you've deleted all the volumes on the HDD you should be able to create a new partition to use the entirety of the drive.