Win 7 or HD problem

[robinbredin]

Is this an win 7 problem or an hard drive problem. What it is, after i press the start button the win logo comes with Starting Windows. It will then hang there for some time with no activity coming from the hard drive. I know this because the Hard Drive blue activity light is barely working. Then all of a sudden it would burst into life, and the system will boot up fully.

 

[robinbredin]

It lasted for a couple of minutes and I had nothing in the dvd drive, but no solid colour.

 

[robinbredin]

also a screen shot of msconfig startup items would be helpful

Had a look through the msconfig, and seen the Win DVD. I have problems with that at the moment because it is version 9, so I disabled it from the start up, and rebooted the system. The boot up did not take as long that time.