"Andy Burns" wrote in message news:ker40uFu138U1@mid.individual.net...

Lilly the punk wrote:

Any ideas lol?

If you disconnect the other drives one at a time, is there a particular
one that makes the delay go away?

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That would be a nightmare andy it takes me about 2 hours and a lot of
swearing and vows to assasinate the person who invented sata connectors etc just to wire them up but if all else fails I may try it say 2 per day lol

Thanks

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that mean....that the drive was faulty?

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I have 9 hard drives

I needed another so in order to accommodate I had to switch about power and data leads inside my case and after doing so it knocked the boot order out
so into bios and set my ssd back to first boot.

Now it takes 90 seconds to boot up instead of about 17

I done a chkdsk no use.

I made sure it was back on sata channel 1 no use

I done a "last known good config" no use

Any ideas lol?

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Lilly the punk wrote:

Any ideas lol?

If you disconnect the other drives one at a time, is there a particular
one that makes the delay go away?

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Lilly the punk wrote:

I may try it say 2 per day lol

whatever to narrow it down, unplug half of them, if no different, unplug
the other half, but ideally you want to find a single drive that's
somehow causing it.

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that mean....that
the drive was faulty?

maybe drive, maybe cable, something loose?

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message news:ker6icFuea0U2@mid.individual.net...

Lilly the punk wrote:

I may try it say 2 per day lol

whatever to narrow it down, unplug half of them, if no different, unplug
the other half, but ideally you want to find a single drive that's
somehow causing it.

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that mean....that
the drive was faulty?

maybe drive, maybe cable, something loose?

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CHEERS aNDY i WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW i GET ON.......

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On 13/06/2023 16:54, Lilly the punk wrote:

"Andy Burns"  wrote in message news:ker6icFuea0U2@mid.individual.net... Lilly the punk wrote:

I may try it say 2 per day lol

whatever to narrow it down, unplug half of them, if no different, unplug
the other half, but ideally you want to find a single drive that's
somehow causing it.

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that
mean....that the drive was faulty?

maybe drive, maybe cable, something loose?

have a listen to the drives... can you hear oen of them doing lots of
retries as in clicking, motor stop starting etc?

You coudl also interrogate the SMART data for all of yoru drives and see
which one is reporting lots of retries..

Could mean either a duff drive or a duff SATA cable or one of the
voltage rails is out of spec.

Unusual for SATA ports on mobo or controller to go bad, might be woprth blasting some compressed air in the SATA ports you're using for the
first time in case you have dust between plug & socket

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On 13/06/2023 13:42, Andy Burns wrote:

Lilly the punk wrote:

I may try it say 2 per day lol

whatever to narrow it down, unplug half of them, if no different, unplug
the other half, but ideally you want to find a single drive that's
somehow causing it.

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that
mean....that the drive was faulty?

maybe drive, maybe cable, something loose?

Lilly, if you unplug 4 of them and the problem goes away make a note of
which half it was - then plug a couple of them back in.

That will tell you which pair of drives has the problem. You can then plug/unplug one drive and you'll then know which is the bad one.

It's a little harder with the other 5, but the principle is the same.

Good luck
Andy

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"Vir Campestris" wrote in message news:u6nad2$1mp72$1@dont-email.me...

On 13/06/2023 13:42, Andy Burns wrote:

Lilly the punk wrote:

I may try it say 2 per day lol

whatever to narrow it down, unplug half of them, if no different, unplug
the other half, but ideally you want to find a single drive that's somehow causing it.

Let's say I found one that IS causing it....what would that mean....that
the drive was faulty?

maybe drive, maybe cable, something loose?

Lilly, if you unplug 4 of them and the problem goes away make a note of
which half it was - then plug a couple of them back in.

That will tell you which pair of drives has the problem. You can then plug/unplug one drive and you'll then know which is the bad one.

It's a little harder with the other 5, but the principle is the same.

Good luck
Andy

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I solved it by accident.

For a while whenever I shut windows live mail I kept getting an error which
U fixed by carrying out the instructions to defragment the mail store.

But the error happened again and this time I couldn't fix it so I just put
up with it. Then last week a different error happened and all my emails vanished completely and even when I went to the WLM folder all the folders
were empty.

By pure luck about 10 days earlier I had run a program which saves all your emails I think its called mail store or something so I put all my emails
back into their folders and it all worked fine.

No more error on shutting wlm down either.

It cured my start up problem.

No idea why it just did lol

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP GUYS!!

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