PC Slow to power off and slow to boot + 2nd HDD not appearing

[Timmy_Dodd]

So I have 3 problems that have been going on for a while now.

1. My PC sometimes takes a number of minutes to power off after windows has shutdown. This will appear to happen in a couple different ways. Most of the time everything will appear to shutdown like normal but once the screens go black (but continue to stay on displaying a black screen) all the fans and lights of my computer will stay on for a few minutes and, sometimes over night. Occasionally it will shutdown in a normal amount of time, with the screens staying on while black for less than 10 seconds.
2. Sometimes when I boot my PC it will take a while to load windows while showing the logo and the spinning dots.
3. Today I opened my PC up to physically disconnect and reconnect my secondary internal HDD. I ended up disconnecting and reconnecting both of them while switching the SATA cables that were connected to them. After doing that I booted the PC up and it took about 5 minutes to boot to the windows login screen.

I still can’t see my HDD after doing this. Before I turned the PC off I had 2 disk drives in device manager but now I only have one. The last time I stopped seeing my second HDD it was after a couple reboots that I lost access to the data.

I am Comptia A+ Certified but I haven’t used any of that knowledge in a couple years.

[DOUGIE]

Hi Timmy, and Welcome.
Try turning off Windows Fast Start Up, and see if your computer shuts down quicker.

[Bill1]

If Dougie’s suggestion doesn’t work. may be a long shot but I’d replace both SATA cables.

[phillpower2]

If Dougie’s suggestion doesn’t work. may be a long shot but I’d replace both SATA cables.

If not an immediate option, as a minimum return the present SATA cables to the way that they were and try any other SATA ports the MB may have to see if both HDDs are detected again then get back to us.

[Malnutrition]

This video will show you how to repair the boot loader for your SSD. Following these instructions should be exactly what you need to fix the issue with your SSD…

Download the Ultimate Boot CD for windows.

Start the video below at 53 minutes.

Follow the instructions for using the Ultimate Boot CD.

[MEDIA=youtube]3ACedfiQPmE[/MEDIA]

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[veeg]

Any updates for us? After 48 hrs this thread will be closed.

[Timmy_Dodd]

Sorry for the silence. The day after I posted this I had to go to the hospital for the eventual (the next day) premature birth of my daughter. So needless to say I’ve been to busy to worry about my secondary hard drive which only has some additional steam games installed on it. Thanks for all the replies tho.

Malnutrition I don’t have an SSD, would the video still help me possibly? I guess you can go ahead and close the thread and I’ll get to this when I can. If these fixes don’t work I’ll probably repost in a few months… Lol

[Bill1]

Congratulations are in order. I hope all is well.

[Timmy_Dodd]

Congratulations are in order. I hope all is well.

Yes everything has gone well these past two weeks. Everyone is in good health.