![]() ![]() I hope i won't forget to disconnect it, but i've got tons of stuff to do for work these days. If the 250GB HDD dies and i forget to disconnect it then can i still get into the OS if only the 2TB HDD is working and the 250GB HDD is dead and still connected ? Sometimes this will be "Fast Boot", but sometimes it will be another setting. If you don't see the full boot report on screen it could be that a setting in the BIOS (Boot Section) needs to be flipped. ![]() Watching this can tell you a lot, because if the system is hanging on hard drives initialization you will actually see it pause there. If you've got an older BIOS for your system, not a modern UEFI BIOS, then you may be getting the full BIOS screen report on startup (black screen with white lettering), where you can actually see the hard drives being found and initialized at the very end of the process and before Windows starts loading. This test will only show you if the POST and BOOT go faster - obviously not the OS startup, but you said that OS start time was not the issue. The only difference now will be that when you start up the computer the boot will fail and you will get an error message telling you that no bootable media was found (duh!). If you wanted to test to see if the 2TB Seagate was the problem you could still do this test with no adverse effects. Once you are satisfied with the test you can shut down and reconnect the WD and you will be back to everything as usual. A power-on self-test (POST) is a succession of built-in diagnostic tests performed when turning on a computer. So you can test to see if the system starts up faster with the WD disconnected. The only thing you will notice while in Windows is that the files and folders that were on the WD will not been seen in Windows Explorer. If the OS is on the 2TB Seagate then you can disconnect the 250GB WD and the system will boot into Windows. ![]()
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