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Fantastic!!!
Glad it helped. Here is the thread where this was strange issue was hashed out just a week ago:
Frozen BIOS Boot screen
As you can see there is no definitive answer yet about what exactly happens here, just theories. Anyone know for sure?
Glad it finally worked out. It took a while, but was well worth it. I have never known of this happening before. I was aware that there are occasionally permission issues, but not this. Congratulations on getting the system the way you like it.
I cannot believe this. Rebooted four times in a row just to see if it took, and all was well. Decided to both image my drive and create a backup throught the built-in windows utility, and the next boot was back up to 38 seconds. I'm going to start this three hour process over again, and then figure out how to disable this "feature" once and for all.
Edit: I'm wondering whether checking the box on the Microsoft imaging utility to include the MBR in the image is inserting boot code on the storage drive. Until this is cleared up, I think I'm going to go with a third party disk imaging product.
Final Edit: Finished copying all my data back to the 2TB WD drive, and my boots are back to the 17 second range. IMHO, the culprit was Microsoft's backup/imaging utility all along.
Last edited by Raillex; 27 Oct 2011 at 13:36.
This seems to be the next-in-line preferred imaging freeware: Macrium - Image your system
Be aware that if you have WD or Seagate HD's you can use their free premium Acronis imaging/cloning app from your HD model's Support Downloads webpage. WD Acronis free cloning app
I use the free Acronis software on my other Windows 7 machine and have never experienced the slow boot issues that plagued my new system. I think I'm going to install the same software on the new rig and see what happens.
Update: I imaged my boot drive with the free Acronis WD software and placed the image on my WD storage drive. The machine still boots in the 17 second range.
Last edited by Raillex; 30 Oct 2011 at 03:38.
I think I have a problem related to this. I'm running a boot drive SSD and a 1TB WD caviar black. Is the the only way to fix it is to move the data off the HDD and wipe it? I didn't have a problem until the other day when I decided to defrag the HDD. Once I defragged it I get about a 30 sec delay at the starting windows screen before log in. My system works fine if I take the HDD out my system.
I would check your Diagnostics Performance log in Event Viewer and see if either OtherKernelInitDuration or SessionInitOtherDuration are in the 20 second range. If they are, and if you imaged your SSD boot drive with the built in Windows Backup and Restore utility and put the image on the WD 1TB drive, I'd bet you do have the same problem.
Not sure whether gregrocker's Diskpart clean command solution is the only one, but it worked well for me. I'll admit that moving 160GB of data off of and then back onto my WD storage drive was about as fun as watching paint dry, but it was a small price to pay to get my boot times back to the 17-18 second range.