Duel Type Storage - Decrease Boot Times (Dell BIOS)

[SpanishMoss00]

I have a Dell Inspirion Gaming laptop that has both SSD and HDD installed. When I bought it, it only had the SSD in it, but it was 256GB, so I added an internal HDD in the open SATA port. When I booted it up for the first time with the new configuration, the boot time had gone from 5sec to 30sec+. All of the windows system files are located on the SSD and none on the HDD. I was researching and found that the longer boot time is because the Laptop checks all attached storage devices for booting, and of course, it takes much longer to do this on an HDD. I was wondering if there was a way to either remove the HDD from the menu that searches for bootable devices, or prevent the system from attempting to boot to the HDD. As mentioned above, the BIOS is by Dell (assuming BIOS changes will be needed). A note: if the changes required could cause issues such as the system not recognizing the disk at all, I would rather not take that risk. If it pertains, the HDD and the SDD are formatted as NTFS, and the SSD is in an NVMe port; they are both internal.


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Thanks!

-SpanishMoss00

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