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    Disk in drive causing to freeze starting up?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by mechrock, Jun 12, 2009.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    When ever I have a disk in my P-6860's Drive when starting up now it causes the start to freeze and go really slow. As soon as I got a paper clip and opened the drive start up continued normally. What could be wrong with my drive or computer?
     
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  2. sentence

    sentence Notebook Consultant

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    to me that sounds normal, most stock settings for laptops is to check hard drives/ optic drives... any type of storage for another means of boot.
    when i have my external HDD my lappy takes quite a bit longer to start.
    If you want to skip that, go into your settings (pre-boot..F10/8<--or something =P) and change it so it checks your c drive first.
    Good luck ^^
     
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