windows 7 long "starting windows" screen time and froze disk check

paging file? what do you mean by that? Sorry I'm good with computers but not THAT literate, and thank you very much for the quick response times.

in a much simpler term... paging file is one of the memory-management schemes by which a computer can store and retrieve data from secondary storage for use in main memory..

how would I find out if the paging file is installed on it?

click on start and on the search bar .. type "view advance system settings"

Then under Performance click Settings

Then select the Advanced Tab and under Virtual Memory click on Change

And there you will see which drive has it and whether its system managed.... etc,...

yeah it says system managed on my c: which is ssd

well I guess, let me try a reboot and see if it still takes a while to get past the "starting windows" screen

Well remove the HDD that is bad.. and reboot.

ok i tried rebooting, without the HDD. It says "reboot and select a proper boot device" so i plugged it back in, and it went back to the starting windows screen and stayed there for a few minutes and finally went to login screen, so I did a little test, I rebooted it again and it went to the starting windows screen but when it was there i unplugged the hard drive and it still stayed at the starting windows screen for a few minutes, then it went right into the login screen, this doesnt make sense to me?

Ok so heres the thing if I keep the HDD plugged in on the starting windows screen it either freezes or its just taking an extreeeeeemely long time to get past it. If I unplug the hard drive in this screen it goes right into the login page

unplug the HDD and do a clean installation of Windows 7.. it will be back to normal.