Please don't forget to use a name when you post. I hate being pressured to take action against people....

I've got a terabyte of hard drive, with more than 50% free. I'm storing my music library on a 500 GB HP "Personal Media Drive" that plugs into a bay on the computer. Since it's a USB connection, I suspect the data transfer isn't as fast as an internal drive would have. Oh, and I have an external 500 GB backup drive, and I just bought another 500-gig drive to back up the music drive. So, I guess you could say I have 2 Terabytes, but only GB is internal.

I tried unplugging the HP drive before booting. It didn't seem to speed things up, but maybe Media Player was looking for files that weren't there. Something is using up a lot of energy and time to scan my computer at bootup. You'd think Task Manager would give me a hint, but I haven't detected anything unusual there.
-Joe-