During boot I see a black screen for 30 (cos of ext HD)

Firstly, this is my rig: TechComet: My Gadgets

The thing I am having problem with is my WD 1TB External HD on Win 7 x64

What happens is two things:

1. If I enable legacy support for External USB Hard Drives, before the boot starts the Logo of the motherboard shows for about 30s before the boot starts. If I disable legacy support this Logo only shows for about 1s.

2. Disabling legacy support, however means that after I boot and I see the Windows Logo, there is a period of about 30s when the screen goes black and stays back. I have a feeling that a scan of the external HD is being done at this point.

So, it looks like I have to wait either way. Is there anything I can do to ensure that I don't have that black screen. It is only 30s, but I have a SSD and my boot time is about 10s in total!

I have the feeling that the SSD has something to do with it. Since I installed the SSD, I observe the same phenomenon. And I do not have a 1TB external drive. I never researched the problem. But my restart time is also 68 sec of which boot is only about 12 seconds.

whs said:

I have the feeling that the SSD has something to do with it. Since I installed the SSD, I observe the same phenomenon. And I do not have a 1TB external drive. I never researched the problem. But my restart time is also 68 sec of which boot is only about 12 seconds.

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I am almost 100% certain it is not the SSD as an easy solution to my problem is to simply disconnect my external HD, this solves the problem completely. But, it is a pain to constantly reconnect it. Since I use it for backup purposes if I forgot to connect it then I may lose data. So, I need a better fix.