WD external hard drive slows down vista boot time

I have the problem that when my western digital 500gb hard drive is connected to the pc and switched on vista is booting up to 3 minutes longer than usual. I avoided this by plugging in the external drive after vista was up and running. However I was wondering whether there is a way to solve the problem differentlt. Not sure about bios settings. any help would be great

 

Hi dogtag
I've moved this to the Hardware Forum. You will get better answers here.

Geri

 

thx i realised that it was under malware afterwards - but will be more aware of things like that in the future

 

You can go My Computer, right-click on the drive -> Properties -> Tools tab and run Error Checking on the drive.

It may be due to the antivirus running scans on the files.

Matt