second drive slows boot??

Snykch · 30 Apr 2011 at 14:31

On a completely clean install to my ssd, windows boots in 8 seconds flat (3 to logon, 5 to desktop). If I then plug in my 2TB seagate data drive the boot time slows to 21 seconds (15 & 6).

I don't really understand where this slowdown is coming from, as there's nothing extra being loaded at all.

Any idea what causes this slowdown and how I can eliminate it?

Thanks.

Snykch · 30 Apr 2011 at 15:03

An extra 12 seconds just to detect a disk seems ridiculous

Snykch · 1 May 2011 at 01:54

Well, I downloaded the MS Performance Toolkit and ran a boot trace to see what was slowing things up, and it turns out autochk.exe was causing all the slowdown. Tried altering the settings so that it would ignore my storage drives, but it never made any difference. In the end I've just deleted the registry entry that executes it during boot, and now I'm back to booting to desktop in the times I'd expect from having my OS on SSD.

Info here

Just delete the value of the BootExecute key.

Snykch · 1 May 2011 at 02:40

But you can find the time to be condescending?

All input appreciated, guys.

Snykch · 1 May 2011 at 04:36

I knew the situation. If drives were shutdown improperly it will advise me that I might need to check the disk for errors. Since I'm the only person with access to my PC, I'm fairly certain that I'll know when it hasn't been shutdown properly, and I'm certainly capable of running chkdsk manually if required.

Again, thanks for the input and warnings, I do appreciate it.