Long boot time after adding hdd

[LuLWaT]

Hey

So I had a 120gb ssd and everything was fine. I added a new hdd and went into the bios to realise that cd drive was higher priority that ssd. I changed this and went into windows. Initiated hdd and allocated. Moved all folder like music and downloads into hdd and rebooted. The boot times were long. I would get stuck on a blank screen for like a minute. After a few restarts, it said boot error with hdd and something along the lines of a fault. I unplugged and replugged the hdd and this stopped the error. The boots were then quick sometimes and long sometimes. Any help? Thanks.

[Dysthymia]

Sounds like a bad connection with the SATA cable. Swap them around to see if you can determine which one for sure, or replace the one for the HDD.

[LuLWaT]

Sounds like a bad connection with the SATA cable. Swap them around to see if you can determine which one for sure, or replace the one for the HDD.

I just unplugged and replugged the cables to the hdd and the error no longer came up.