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so i just reinstalled windows 8.1 pro and it did this before but for some reason i can hear one of my hard drives accessing things when i boot this is strange because windows is on the SSD and when i installed windows i unplugged all other drives why is it doing this

 

Note the hard drive its accessing for no reason is where i keep all my ISO files do you think its trying to read them    

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All hard drive will "spin up" in the boot process. Windows when it boots needs to know what it has connected to it as well. (other hard drives) as well as the wonderful file indexer.......... It is the nature of the beast. Not just spying on your stuff......

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All hard drive will "spin up" in the boot process. Windows when it boots needs to know what it has connected to it as well. (other hard drives) as well as the wonderful file indexer.......... It is the nature of the beast. Not just spying on your stuff......

yeah  i guessed that they all spin up but even after that during the boot process only one hard drive is being accessed i might unplug it to see if i notice a difference because it seems to slow the boot up  

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Has that drive ever had windows installed on it, if the partition has a system flag on it then it will be checked for boot data.

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Has that drive ever had windows installed on it, if the partition has a system flag on it then it will be checked for boot data.

no but it was original a external hard drive from WD which i took out the casing and used inside the desktop + its been through like 15 different windows installs 

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Has that drive ever had windows installed on it, if the partition has a system flag on it then it will be checked for boot data.

it has also had VM's on that drive could that be it 

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VMware vm's or Hyper-V/VirtualPC if there are VHDs on there it might look at them?

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have a look in Disk Mangment, attach a screen shot if you can so we can see the flags against the drive/partition.

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have a look in Disk Mangment, attach a screen shot if you can so we can see the flags against the drive/partition.

had a look and they where all primary but the main SSD was set as boot able nothing else was  

 

All hard drive will "spin up" in the boot process. Windows when it boots needs to know what it has connected to it as well. (other hard drives) as well as the wonderful file indexer.......... It is the nature of the beast. Not just spying on your stuff......

 

hey guys so i just unplugged the hard drive that was being used at start up and it boots up so much faster even thought there is still other hard drives in the system do you think is because it has them ISO on there or because it hasn't been formatted in 3 or so years or because its a old WD green 

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It's more likely the age than the content, windows pre-boot won't know what ISOs are,  WD Greens have never been quick drives.

 

I'd consider replacing the drive, at the least run CrystalDisk Info and check the drive, maybe backup and format it just to be sure.

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It's more likely the age than the content, windows pre-boot won't know what ISOs are,  WD Greens have never been quick drives.

 

I'd consider replacing the drive, at the least run CrystalDisk Info and check the drive, maybe backup and format it just to be sure.

 

yeah i think its the age of the drive its not an important drive just holds ISO's and backups the main Hard drive is a HGST 3TB 7200RPM drive. the speed of the WD green is about 80-100MB's and the HGST is about 175MB's. 

 

im just going to run it in an external doc and use it when i need it 

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