Windows 10 takes nearly 4 minutes to Boot...

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IC3

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After a bigger update a few months ago, the PC is taking 3-4 minutes to Boot. I did a clean install today and checked, I get around the same time (timed it with stop watch). I've updated Windows with all the up to date updates and still experiencing long boot time... I've searched Google and already tried most of the 'known fixes'

SSD Intel 520 is healthy, checked with crystaldisk mark and intel tool.

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I might just go back to 7, with 10 I have to reinstall it at least every 6 months... 7 was running solid for 3 years.
 
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Anything unusual about the PC hardware specs?

Could be a missing driver or something... causing it to hang on that until l it finally skips over it and carries on with boot.

What a bout BIOS settings? Can you set the SSD as first boot priority and maybe enable fast boot?
 
Sorry, I forgot to state the obvious haha.

PC Spec

-Intel i5 [email protected]
-Asus P8Z68-V (I turned off most of the unwanted crap along with the marvell controller, checked with default settings too though.)
-Kingston Hyperx 2x4gb 1600mhz
-Asus Strix GTX970@Stock (Newest drivers)
-Intel 520 120gb@100% Health Check (Sata 6 1st port)
-WD Blue 750GB (3rd Sata 3 Port)
-WD Blue 640GB (4th Sata 3 Port)
BeQuiet Gold rated 500w PSU (can't remember which one exactly)

Running Windows 10 Pro, completely stock. The only thing I changed is the appearance to have less animation and power settings to higher performance. Harddrive and RAM are fine, checked that... From hardware side of things everything is fine. I'll try to find which update it was, but I think it was the developer update or something along those lines.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
How many hard drives?
One might have a dodgy chip, i had this until i unplugged a drive that was failing.
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I didn't think about that, I might give this a go tomorrow. I'll do one at a time and see if that changes anything, before it took around 10 seconds to boot into the OS.
 
IC3 said:
After a bigger update a few months ago, the PC is taking 3-4 minutes to Boot. I did a clean install today and checked, I get around the same time (timed it with stop watch). I've updated Windows with all the up to date updates and still experiencing long boot time... I've searched Google and already tried most of the 'known fixes'

SSD Intel 520 is healthy, checked with crystaldisk mark and intel tool.

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I might just go back to 7, with 10 I have to reinstall it at least every 6 months... 7 was running solid for 3 years.
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can you break it down a bit to help folks help you, is it hanging at the beginning when bios may be looking for things or is the delay
after bios when loading windows ?
 
wakadoo said:
can you break it down a bit to help folks help you, is it hanging at the beginning when bios may be looking for things or is the delay
after bios when loading windows ?
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It's on the Windows loading screen, when you see that blue Windows Logo, to that point I would say it loads pretty normal for the spec. But it hangs on the actual OS... Hence why I doubt its the hardware.
 
Windows 10 on my Z68 board/SSD took under a minute to fully boot, so I don't think it's W10 at fault especially if you did a clean install. And this was about a month ago, with the system having no issues even after the Creators update.

I'm assuming it's already set to AHCI? I remember the Intel RST drivers offering better speeds compared to the stock Microsoft drivers with this chipset. Can't remember if this was the right one though: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...-AHCI-for-Windows-7-8-on-Intel-Desktop-Boards

Having you also tried booting Windows with only the SSD connected? And when you did a clean install, was the SSD the only drive hooked up? Another point, did you use the latest Creators ISO to do the clean install?
 
I had all the HDD's connected when I did the clean install, I did a reset via Windows and did a full cleanup. I noticed the performance go down after one of the updates, I thought that a simple format might solve the issue. But nothing is ever simple with the W10... :mad:

I'll check the Hard drives one more time tomorrow, we'll see if they're at fault.

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I'll try the drivers today tho.
 
The issue doing an install with more than one drive connected, boot files might end up on another drive instead of the main OS drive which could significantly slow things down. In disk management, can you see where the 100mb/450mb (I forgot the exact size :p) partition is?
 
It boots up within 12 seconds with SSD alone, 17 with 750GB or 640gb and 3 minutes with all 3. :p

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Disconnected 2 HDD's I use for storage, run bootrec commands via CMD in recovery and all seems to be back to normal. Thanks guys
 
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Excellent, somehow looking for an mbr, or making one up on the fly every time you booted or some other crazy crap.
If this happens again, then i’d be running detailed smart on the secondary drives or similar.

Hopefully not, great that it is back to normal.
 
The drives are like 6-7 years old, so they did well. I'll be looking at getting 1 drive to go along with my SSD, should be better. :D
 
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