I never did get the HDD to work again and I just kind of worked on the basis I've lost my stuff

My machine seems to take forever to bootup now though.

I have an ASUS Maximus II Extreme MoBo and when I turn it on it sits at a screen that looks like this:



A whole lot longer than it used to...

Machine runs totally fine though once it's on.

My 2nd HDD was only ever used as storeage for my media so nothing was booting off it...

Any ideas?

 

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Did you try the HDD in another computer?


And I do not see where you tried any previous suggestions and what results you obtained.


Cleared the BIOS yet? If not, try that and remove the battery for 30 minutes.


Had a bad stick of RAM in a computer that caused a 3minute bootup, but worked fine after and showed correct amount of ram.

Haven't been able to try the HDD in another pc which atm is my only last option


I realized why I was bootin up slow though... I thought I'd unplugged the HDD from MoBo but I hadn't... so it was still spending ages trying to read it when I turned it on. Boots quick again now though

 

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Try booting to a copy of KNOPPIX and see if it sees the drive.

My experiences with SATA cables is that they can be very flaky, try more than one spare and not from the same manufacture.

This. Actually any LIVE linux environment will do.

 

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