W7 takes ages to boot

[mrapoc]

It literally stays at the W7 logo for a good couple of minutes before getting on with it. HDD activity shows it is doing something

I have tried resetting overclock to stock. REINSTALLING. Taken all usb out and only got bare minimum plugged in. Its booting from 2 raptorx in raid0. Once in its fine. Just booting is damn slow and annoying.

Ideas?

 

[kilobravo]

Looks like some bad sectors on disk.

Right-click on the disk,go to properties,then functions,and click "this search will find errors" or something like that.

 

[mrapoc]

Oh and ive also check disked all my hard drives

 

[marsey99]

What have you used to defrag the array? It could be the data is scattered and need to be moved to the edge of the platters. I use ultimate defrag but to get it right you need to run it a few times, first so the files are put together by name, then move it all to the inner then putting the most used to the outer so only the data you read is on the fast part.

Other than that it could be something you have plugged in, like mine takes ages to boot if I have one of my USB thumb drives plugged in.

 

[mrapoc]

Shouldnt be fragmented as its a fresh install and still playing up. All usbs disconnected and it still does it.

Gonna have a mess with sata ports tonight =/

Got a kingston ssd now v100 coming tomorrow though

 

[Ya93sin]

Did you install SP1?

But Windows inevitably slows down anyway, my netbook used to boot up in 30secs, I keep my PC very well, optimise it, run a tight ship in terms of what I store and fragmentation, it now takes 2minutes or more to boot up.

 

[Game Over]

Mine boots in just a few seconds but that is with a SSD. One program I know is good for checking the hard drive is a program called Spinrite 6, but its not a free program.

 

[dugdiamond]

you probably have alot of registry-launched apps running at boot.

search for SOLUTO on the web and run it (it's free)

make a note of all the changes it made, uninstall it and re-do those changes yourself

failing that: try re-installing windows OVER your original

then copy all your data from the WINOLD to the new system

 

[Game Over]

you probably have alot of registry-launched apps running at boot.

search for SOLUTO on the web and run it (it's free)

make a note of all the changes it made, uninstall it and re-do those changes yourself

failing that: try re-installing windows OVER your original

then copy all your data from the WINOLD to the new system

Why do you recommend uninstalling it?

 

[dugdiamond]

Why do you recommend uninstalling it?

because it does nothing, but tell YOU what TODO - if you use it properly

once it does its' bit, it itself will be part of the boot-up procedure.

uninstalling soluto will revert all changes prior to its' use

so i used it... worked out what it did... then uninstalled it... and did what the app did manually.

i shaved 37secs off my bootup - i now boot to usuable-win7 in 57secs on YING(raid0) rig and 36secs on YANG(sdd)

 

[yggdrasil]

After the fresh install was it slow to boot straight away or only after you had installed applications and drivers?

Have you tried using a different HDD. Dig up a old SATA drive and see if it still hangs.

even a slow SATA drive shouldn't take minute's to boot.

Try a different sata cable and or sata port on the mobo.

 

[mrapoc]

Managed to get the time to figure it out.

One out of my data drives is failing. Soon as I took it out, all is fine.

Testing them now to see which one is the culprit. Luckily all important data is backed up as it was freezing as I tried to backup any further.

Might have to look into a automated backup server at some point

Cheers all