Win 7 slow to boot and unusable


  1. turbo6
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    Win 7 slow to boot and unusable


    Problem: Win 7 began crashing and now takes an hour to boot. Upon booting system is so slow it's unusable. The disk light on the laptop is constantly working.

    Specs: Win 7 Home Premium. HP Pavilion G7 1219WM laptop. Slow 1.6mhz processor but this is even more ridiculous than usual.

    Tried: Basically all F8 options. Repair, last known good configuration, system restore to weeks prior. AVG scan is clean. MalwareBytes deleted a few keys and a file. Trendmicro scan is clean. Tried a Windows update but the boot issue seems to keep it from properly configuring. Chkdsk yielded nothing. I can't seem to /scannow my C drive, says I have an update pending.

    I can boot to safe mode, despite a very long boot. Windows does function in that environment. My disk light does not constantly flash when in safe mode.

    Shutting down results in a blue screen message saying preparing to configure Windows. So not only is there an issue with booting, it seems to stuck in some sort of failed update loop.

    Any ideas?
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  3. Mellon Head
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    I have seen very slow boot and use performance when a drive is going bad.

    Are you letting the computer finish its update cycle on shutdown? It may take a long time, but that might allow you to run sfc/scannow without a problem.

    Please fill out your system specs so that we can give more detailed help.

    What is the brand and model of the drive? If it's a Seagate, you can use something like SeaTools to scan the drive for problems. It's much more thorough than Chkdsk. Western Digital has a similar utility.
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  4. turbo6
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    Microprocessor
    1.65GHz VISION E2 Technology from AMD with AMD Dual-Core E-450 Accelerated Processor
    Microprocessor Cache
    1MB L2 Cache
    Memory
    4GB DDR3 SDRA
    Hard Drives
    HDD
    500GB
    HDD RPM
    5400RPM
    HDD Interface
    SATA

    support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02974952

    I think it's a Hitachi drive? I'll double check once I boot again.

    I believe it did complete a full start and shut down after the update, unless it crashed... I let it run overnight. However Windows still thinks it's pending.
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  6. turbo6
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    Bingo. It was the hard drive.
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  7. Mellon Head
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    Glad you got it figured out. :)
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  8. gregrocker
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    I would buy an SSD which is the best upgrade you can do for Windows 7, then do a perfect Clean Reinstall Windows 7

    You'll have a vastly better install than putting the HP Factory image back on the new drive, larded with the worst load of bloatware in the industry.
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  10. turbo6
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    Thanks for the replies.

    For now I simply swapped an old hard drive from a Gateway I had and began updating the drivers.

    I'm running Vista for now. I have No idea where my HP recovery disk is, or if it even had one. If anything I'll probably just get a new laptop in the future. The 17 inch screen is nice, but the processor is anaemic on this thing. [emoji1]
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  11. gregrocker
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    If you're running the factory install on that PC then you have no idea how it would run with the much preferred clean reinstall. You cannot judge a PCs performance when it has the worst install of Windows 7 possible. What we know is that every PC runs almost twice as fast when the factory image is replaced.
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