Windows 7: SSD slow boot times

I have a 128 gig Vertex 4 that recently started taking about a minute to boot up when it normally takes under 10 seconds. It was paired with a 1TB (half-filled) Spinpoint I was using for data. On black friday, I got a good deal on an OCZ Agility 4 and replaced it with my Spinpoint to see if it was the problem. It wasn't the problem; it still takes way longer than it should to boot up. Both SSD's are in AHCI mode. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks for the help.

Are you sure the problem is hardware and not software?

I actually thought that after I bought the Agility, but I still wanted to keep it anyway because my HDD would freeze for 7-8 seconds when I tried to load something from it. But if it's a software problem, I have no idea would the problem is. I only have 33 GB of data on my boot drive, if that matters.

Post a picture of your Disk Management. Chances are your bootmgr landed on the HDD.

Here it is

The bootmgr is in the right place. Did you enable AHCI in Windows too AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

Yes, I did.

Is the SSD properly aligned.

If you want to verify the alignment, you use the following commands.

Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n
List partition

Now you should see a result like this.

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 59 GB 1024 KB - but 64KB or any number divisible by 4 is also good

The offset (in KBs) has to be divisible by 4.

Disk 0 Partition 1 100 MB 1024 KB
Disk 0 Partition 2 119 GB 101 MB

That looks good. Now I am out of ideas regarding the SSD.

The only other thing you can do is to track your boot. First have a look into the event viewer and see what that says.

Then you can also use Soluto to get a detailed view. You should know that some people had problems with Soluto - but it worked fine for me. So it's at your own risk. But if Lifehacker sponsors it, it should be OK.