slow boot windows 7

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sorry if this is posted in the wrong section but im wondering if anyone could help me with my PC. for the last few weeks its been slow in booting up. when it goes to the black screen and says Windows Start up it stays like that for a good minute and a half before the 4 coloured badge starts to appear. you can hear the hard drive loading. apart from the booting up issue the hard drive seems to work fine. Windows and drivers are also up to date. Ive disabled all non esential programs from the startup and ive scanned the pc with malwarebytes. any idea what it could be? The hard drive im using is a Samsung 250gb ssd.
 
SSD's don't make any noise that I know of and should boot pretty fast, do you have other normal mechanical drives connected that could be making the noise?
 
yeh i do have one mechanical drive as well. it boots up fine in safe mode. also ive noticed if i havent shut down the pc properly and the window pops up on start up and i chose to start windows normally and it goes to the windows start up screen it loads perfectly fine with no delay.
 
What are you using as a background? there is a bug in 7 where certain tiled backgrounds will add 40+ seconds onto boot up times (though usually the delay is closer to when Windows has finished loading).

Otherwise sounds like a device driver is causing the slowdown.
 
what do you mean using as a back ground?
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Go to event viewer and see if you have any critical, errors or warnings at the time you boot. It should tell you what is hanging the system.

If you see any right click and view instances of this event.
 
May I make a suggestion, turn your machine off and unplug the mechanical drive then start up.

If you are hearing the hard drive going during boot up then it may be having issues reading the HDD which may indicate a cable / HDD problem you should be cautious of.

Try booting without the mechanical drive.
 
May I make a suggestion, turn your machine off and unplug the mechanical drive then start up.

If you are hearing the hard drive going during boot up then it may be having issues reading the HDD which may indicate a cable / HDD problem you should be cautious of.

Try booting without the mechanical drive.
Seconded

Also if you upgrade to W10 now you can reinstall it at a later date(it remembers your hardware that you activated it on i think)
 
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