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Hi,
If my Western Digital MyBook 250 GB drive is connected when I boot Vista, it
takes ~3 minutes longer to boot than normal. Does anyone have an idea what's
going on with the drive during the startup process?
Booting without it connected, startup moves quickly from the green progress
bar screen to the windows "orb" screen, and so on.
Booting with the drive connected, the screen goes black for a few minutes
after the green progress bar screen disappears. I can hear disk activity on
the drive, but I don't know what Vista is doing with it. Vista then starts
normally.
I've tried the following, to no avail:
- Changing the boot order in my BIOS such that only my internal hdd is
listed and booting from other devices is disabled.
- Turning on/off legacy USB 1.1 support
- Disabling indexing on the drive
- Disabling readyboost and some other services
- Deleting the drive's partition and doing a complete format
When booting with the usb connected, I see in the ntblog.txt that hidusb.sys
and mouhid.sys are loaded. Without the usb connected, those two .sys files
aren't loaded, but cdfs.sys is.
I would appreciate any and all help.
If my Western Digital MyBook 250 GB drive is connected when I boot Vista, it
takes ~3 minutes longer to boot than normal. Does anyone have an idea what's
going on with the drive during the startup process?
Booting without it connected, startup moves quickly from the green progress
bar screen to the windows "orb" screen, and so on.
Booting with the drive connected, the screen goes black for a few minutes
after the green progress bar screen disappears. I can hear disk activity on
the drive, but I don't know what Vista is doing with it. Vista then starts
normally.
I've tried the following, to no avail:
- Changing the boot order in my BIOS such that only my internal hdd is
listed and booting from other devices is disabled.
- Turning on/off legacy USB 1.1 support
- Disabling indexing on the drive
- Disabling readyboost and some other services
- Deleting the drive's partition and doing a complete format
When booting with the usb connected, I see in the ntblog.txt that hidusb.sys
and mouhid.sys are loaded. Without the usb connected, those two .sys files
aren't loaded, but cdfs.sys is.
I would appreciate any and all help.