How to force the motherboard not to initialize a specific disk during POST?

Question

Hard disks

Strange question, but still.

The computer has a 3.5 screw, as a "file cleaner". Due to its size, it takes a long time to initialize (it takes a very long time to spin up). The problem was not obvious against the background of the old SATA SSD, but after buying NVMe, from which the Windows logo literally "flashes", it became annoying when 60-65% of the computer startup time was waiting for the motherboard until this ill-fated screw was unwound.

The question is - is it possible to force the motherboard to go through POST without initializing this screw, so that later Windows itself will initialize it? (Windy is naturally not on the screw)

Answer 1

As an option, make a break in the 5 volt SATA power supply and put a time delay relay there so that the disk electronics come to life at the right time.
Here is this:
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The relay itself can also be set to 5V. Adjust time according to system boot.

Answer 2

unplug sata wire and plug into windows

Answer 3

No. because all devices are polled. You can, as an option, just do not turn off the computer ... there is not much point in turning it off.
And the disk would check if everything is ok with it. because it's strange that it takes a long time (by the way - how long does it take? )