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I'm not sure why it's doing this, but Assist takes FOREVER to load up fully. This is all occurring, suddenly, within the last two-three weeks. Assist (and the pertinent AA folder) is installed/located on my secondary Internal Drive (WD 1TB, 7200rpm). As it's loading, I notice that I cannot access the drive's directory and files. Eventually, it does load, but the worst part is -- it makes that particular drive disappear afterwards; or, if it doesn't disappear after the first Assist/AA session, it will completely lock up the drive the next time I try to run Assist (when I have not turned off the PC since the previous AA session). Then, after it finally decides to unlock itself, the Drive is no longer accessible, unless I Shut Down. Importantly, I use this drive for recording large audio files (.wav, 32-bit, 96khz audio). I can easily undergo full-fledged audio recording, mixing, and mastering sessions with this drive, with no problems, hitches, hiccups, or anything. But as soon as I open Assist, the drive begins going down the proverbial drain.

I don't understand why it's doing this, though. It wasn't doing this before. I remember when Assist used to give that weird, random, "firewall" error; after this was fixed -- via an Assist update maybe -- I think this is when these problems began.

Any help would be awesome! I've been researching my ARSE off trying to figure out what's wrong. I've already checked the Power Management stuff -- disabled sleep/hybrid mode, disabled idle-disk turn-offs, and all that good stuff. Something tells me it's a Windows problem, but since Assist seems like the primary agitator, I'm wondering if someone can tell me 'what' Assist is doing when it says "Checking AA." Maybe that can help me fix this. Like, what could Assist be doing/accessing/writing that could affect the hard drive in this manner?

Thx!!!

maybe it's searching for the disk serial on wrong disk
and if you install aa25assist on your system drive, all good then ?

if so, just copy the whole Directory to your other drive and try again. maybe this works.
good luck