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Are you still experiencing slow boot time? You hasn't told if you just did a clean install right now
Your Windows isn't installed on the fast MVMe drive, it is installed on drive 0. Why?
Is drive 0 a SSD?
What is the time elapsed from POST to Win 7 desktop?
Please edit your profile with all your hardware specs. System Info - See Your System Specs
30 sec is average. I have a M.2 drive. It takes longer to boot than a 2.5 SSD. The answer is ALL other software to load, specially antivirus.
Open MSconfig and set to a clean boot (disable all non MS services and all startup programs)
I know that it has nothing to do with any third party programs, because the PC started slow even when the OS was just installed with 0 programs. Also, booting into safe mode takes extremely long time since it loads about 1 driver a second instead of like 10 drivers a second like it usually does, I know something is wrong here. It can't be the M.2 drive either because I have Windows installed on literally 3 different brand new drives and it boots slowly on all of them. This is not normal, especially since this PC takes about 5 times longer to boot than my older PC that has way worse specs, it makes no sense. It has to be something with my motherboard or something, I don't know.
Did you try a Clean boot?
Clean boot is not the same as safe mode.
Open MSconfig and disable all non MS services and all startup programs.
You can trace startup and shutdown.
Have a look at Why it takes so long to shut down?