Tired of waiting for access to external drive in Windows 8.1

[cooperpr]

When I open windows 8.1 and go to the external hard (1 TB0 ) it takes around five to ten minutes before I have access to the drive. I get a green bar moving very slowly across the top of the screen.

I have used the same drive on a friends machine and it works fine. Is there a setting or something that I have set without knowing it.. Please help:sad

[HappyAndyK]

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