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Firefox starts secondary HDD

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nivra7
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When I start up Firefox and my secondary HDD is on idle it slowly boots and I can hear the HDD start up. I'm using a SSD with Windows 7 which also has the Firefox directory installed. I have no files regarding Firefox on my secondary HDD which is why I'm utterly confused. Thanks!

When I start up Firefox and my secondary HDD is on idle it slowly boots and I can hear the HDD start up. I'm using a SSD with Windows 7 which also has the Firefox directory installed. I have no files regarding Firefox on my secondary HDD which is why I'm utterly confused. Thanks!

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the-edmeister
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If you have saved any Downloads to that secondary drive, try clearing the Downloads History.

nivra7
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All downloads are sent to SSD. I have cleared it anyway to give it a try.

the-edmeister
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Is Firefox installed to the default location? No changes made to where the Firefox Profile is located? Or where TEMP files are located?

nivra7
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Yes it's at default. Everything is on the C drive (SSD). I'm not sure if this would be the issue but I did install Firefox from my secondary HDD since I reformatted my SSD. Would that possibly be the cause?

philipp
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you might want to try a tool like http://technet.microsoft.com/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx to find out if/what files the firefox.exe process is accessing on the HDD, which might hold further clues on how to tackle that...