SSD hangs on Windows 7 Boot

demon8991

demon8991

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I've got the above system and it keep hanging on boot when the windows symbol is on the screen? I know this is a known issue but what are my options to cure it?

Ps this is brand new setup
 
Trying using the windows 7 disc to "repair the computer"

It will write a new MBR and should sort you out.

Have you ever been able to login into Windows, is this the first install?
 
My fault I wasn't very clear!

It boots up fine and has done ever since install it just hang for like a minute or two with constant LED on the front. It worked fine at first no problems at all so I think a windows update might have caused an issue and was just wondering if anyone else has solved this problem as a search on google does throw up the same problem being had by other users?
 
demon8991 said:
My fault I wasn't very clear!

It boots up fine and has done ever since install it just hang for like a minute or two with constant LED on the front. It worked fine at first no problems at all so I think a windows update might have caused an issue and was just wondering if anyone else has solved this problem as a search on google does throw up the same problem being had by other users?
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So just to be clear. You are actually able to boot into Windows, it just takes a lot longer than it's supposed too.

Try tapping F8 on startup and selecting, "repair computer." From their you can use system restore, hopefully revert it back to before it caused the issue... before the windows update perhaps.
 
I had a similar problem a while ago.
All of a sudden my OCZ Vertex Bigfoot drive would not get me into Windows, it would hang on the Windows splashscreen and the harddrive LED would be on constantly, but I couldn't get any further along with the login.
I thought the OCZ drive had died, but I tried disconnecting all my other hard drives and to my surprise it then booted into Windows fine.
I systematically connected the hards drives back, problem turned out to be a faulty Samsung F3 1TB drive that was preventing the system from booting.
Try disconnecting all drives except your boot drive.
 
By chance have you changed your SSD from IDE to AHCI mode?
I had similar hanging on Windows logo screen when I changed modes and needed a BIOS update (as well as the registry change) to fix it. Cheers
 
Tonester007 said:
By chance have you changed your SSD from IDE to AHCI mode?
I had similar hanging on Windows logo screen when I changed modes and needed a BIOS update (as well as the registry change) to fix it. Cheers
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Well i set it up as AHCI before i installed windows as i was told it would max performance. Was this the wrong thing to do?

So do you think a bios update will work? It is a brand new board. Also do you know exactly what i have to do to the registry?
 
Tonester007 said:
By chance have you changed your SSD from IDE to AHCI mode?
I had similar hanging on Windows logo screen when I changed modes and needed a BIOS update (as well as the registry change) to fix it. Cheers
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demon8991 said:
Well i set it up as AHCI before i installed windows as i was told it would max performance. Was this the wrong thing to do?

So do you think a bios update will work? It is a brand new board. Also do you know exactly what i have to do to the registry?
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If you have set it up with AHCI to start with, then that is fine.
You don't need any registry fixes as you have started with AHCI

I was asking to see if you had started with IDE then converted to AHCI.
Apologies for any confusion. :)
 
I will give that a go this afternoon!

It just seems bizarre that it suddenly starts happening after a selection of windows updatesm
 
yashiro said:
Does booting into safe mode work?

Does the first normal boot after a safe boot work normally?
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I have updated the bios and that doesn't seem to work and I have tried booting into safe mode but strangely that doesn't work.

But it does boot into normal windows.

Any ideas?
 
It should always boot into safe mode. Either your install is screwed or you're very impatient :D

Does unplugging the DVD make any difference?
 
Think i waited for around 3 minutes and it was doing nothing.

I haven't tried that so will do that next.

Thanks for that!
 
In the end you may have to bite the bullet and erase the data and re-install.

Once plain old Windows 7 is back make sure to make a system image and/or restore point. Then run the SP1 update.
 
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