Windows is loading files

[Charlie_xd]

Couple of days ago I instaled a new 1TB HDD drive. My boot drive is a 240GB SSD. Ever since the new HDD got instaled "windows is loading files" showes up on screen when turning on my PC (it never did that before) and I think starting the PC takes longer than it did before. Another thing that I noticed is that both boot options #1 and #2 are my 1TB HDDs (with no possibility to change it to SSD). My OS is Win10. Other than that everything works fine except startup takes longer and my NZXT app takes longer to turn on and when it does CPU temp is around 60C (after app is turns on it immediately drops to 35-40C). 

[Vishera]

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Windows is loading files

It's suppose to appear when the OS installer is being loaded to a RAM drive,not when booting normally.

14 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

both boot options #1 and #2 are my 1TB HDDs

Those strange behaviors leads me to believe that you have a fault in your system,

The main suspects are the BIOS,CPU or RAM

[Charlie_xd]

20 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Those strange behaviors leads me to believe that you have a fault in your system,

The main suspects are the BIOS,CPU or RAM

But why would adding a new HDD trigger this? It wasn't doing it before? And besides it showing on the startup everything works just fine. Do you think I should take my PC for a check up or should I just leave it as it is and see if anything gets worse? 

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, Charlie_xd said:

Do you think I should take my PC for a check up

Most "technicians" out there are charlatans,they won't even see that there is something wrong,nor how to fix it.

3 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

But why would adding a new HDD trigger this?

It depends on what is causing the issue.

Luckily i can help you find out the cause.

 

Try testing the CPU with Prime95 with the Small FFTs option for a hour.

Try testing the RAM with Memtest86.

 

Tell us if you get any errors while testing.

 

Prime95 download page:

https://www.mersenne.org/download/

 

Memtest86 download page:

https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

[Master Disaster]

Have you actually formatted the HDD?

[Charlie_xd]

No, but OS is not on my HDD and it's brand new. I created "new simple volume" and that's it.

[Vishera]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Have you actually formatted the HDD?

It shouldn't cause any of those problems anyway.

[Master Disaster]

10 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

No, but OS is not on my HDD and it's brand new. I created "new simple volume" and that's it.

If you unplug the HDD does the system then show the SSD as a bootable device?

[Master Disaster]

9 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It shouldn't cause any of those problems anyway.

I was wondering if the HDD had some remnants of an old install but OP said its a new drive which discounts that.

[Charlie_xd]

6 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

If you unplug the HDD does the system then show the SSD as a bootable device?

I unplugged both HDDs. It booted normally, without "windows is loading files". I'll see how does it look in bios.

[Vishera]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I was wondering if the HDD had some remnants of an old install but OP said its a new drive which discounts that.

I have a feeling that it's a bug in the BIOS,but you should not update the BIOS if you have unstable RAM or CPU,

So OP should check that by following the instructions i wrote earlier.

[Master Disaster]

3 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

I unplugged both HDDs. It booted normally, without "windows is loading files". I'll see how does it look in bios.

You have 2 HDDs?

 

OK please connect all 3 drives, let it boot into Windows, open Disk Management, take a screenshot of the entire window and post it.

[Vishera]

5 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

I unplugged both HDDs. It booted normally, without "windows is loading files". I'll see how does it look in bios.

That's not really a solution,avoiding the trigger won't fix it.

[Charlie_xd]

Ok, so after unplugging both HDDs, booting it twice (no "win loading files") I now booted with all drives plugged in and no "win loading files".

 

7 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You have 2 HDDs?

 

OK please connect all 3 drives, let it boot into Windows, open Disk Management, take a screenshot of the entire window and post it.

 

[Master Disaster]

31 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

Ok, so after unplugging both HDDs, booting it twice (no "win loading files") I now booted with all drives plugged in and no "win loading files".

 

 

OK, so your problem is the EFI boot partition is not on the SSD, its on Disk 0 (which I assume is your old HDD). I actually can't explain why plugging in the new drive causes the behaviour you're seeing however everything SHOULD be OK if you set your system to boot from the old 1TB HDD with all 3 connected.

[Charlie_xd]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

OK, so your problem is the EFI boot volume is not on the SSD, its on Disk 0 (which I assume is your old HDD). I actually can't explain why plugging in the new drive causes the behaviour you're seeing however everything SHOULD be OK if you set your system to boot from the old 1TB HDD with all 3 connected.

But the old HDD doesn't have Windows on it. It used to have it like 3 years ago on the old PC. (I've built a new one recently, with an old SSD with windows, old HDD and now new HDD) 

[Master Disaster]

5 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

But the old HDD doesn't have Windows on it. It used to have it like 3 years ago on the old PC. (I've built a new one recently, with an old SSD with windows, old HDD and now new HDD) 

Yeah, Windows has a nasty habit of installing the bootloader on the wrong drive. Its not really an issue until you need to wipe Drive 0, at that point you also nuke your Windows install.

 

There are ways of creating a new bootloader manually on the correct drive however its very complicated and IMO not worth the bother (you'd have to shrink the main data partition down, move the recovery partition from the start to the end of the drive, create a new EFI partition at the beginning then rebuild the BCD store manually).

 

Next time you reinstall Windows remember to unplug both HDDs first before reinstalling, this give Windows no other choice than use the SSD.

[Charlie_xd]

6 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Next time you reinstall Windows remember to unplug both HDDs first before reinstalling, this give Windows no other choice than use the SSD.

I actually will have a nvme m.2 soon so when installing windows on it I should unplugg all drives and start with m.2 and USB with win only? Is there something elese I should do there? And is there something I have to change in BIOS (I'm asking because now everything is on sata, but m.2 is not on sata).

[Master Disaster]

45 minutes ago, Charlie_xd said:

I actually will have a nvme m.2 soon so when installing windows on it I should unplugg all drives and start with m.2 and USB with win only? Is there something elese I should do there? And is there something I have to change in BIOS (I'm asking because now everything is on sata, but m.2 is not on sata).

Correct, unplug all your other drives except for the one you're installing on then Windows has no choice.