Solved Windows 7 has long bootup time on each restart

[loninappleton]

I know this problem has to be on just one of my machines on the small homenet.
What seems to be happening is that on bootup, Win7 loads but goes though a long background check--
either checkdsk, scannow, something I cannot see.


It there a way to get this constant check on startup turned off to be comparable with others on the

system?

 

[file3456]

Did this just occur?

It could be due to a bad drive or something invoking the scan or it's a setting in BIOS/UEFI.

 

[loninappleton]

Lots of old stuff on my equipment. It could be something when adding a second HD to do backup work.
Those are not matched and not purchased new either. I had wondered about some OS check of
the second drive that triggers the -- I forget-- when you get the startup screen from a shut down. All that will just haveto be lived with if there's no solution just in the OS settings. I do not know what would be in the BIOS settings to flip.


This PC board is the last edition of the MSI760gm E41 FX not a very fancy BIOS setup.

 

[Megahertz07]

I would say you may have one failing disk.
Disconnect all drives from the MB (SATA or power cable) leaving on only the booting disk.
If it boots normally, add another drive till you find the problematic disk.
You can also run chkdsk x: /f on all drives (replace x with the drive letter) Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc.

 

[loninappleton]

I would say you may have one failing disk.
Disconnect all drives from the MB (SATA or power cable) leaving on only the booting disk.
If it boots normally, add another drive till you find the problematic disk.
You can also run chkdsk x: /f on all drives (replace x with the drive letter) Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc.

I will mark this as solved since normal bootup time is taking place witrhout the seond HD. Perhaps the two boot drives which are just clones of each other caused the problem.

I'll take the advice of run chkdsk on D: of I can do that next time HD 2 is attached.


Thanks to those who answered.

 

[file3456]

In addition to chkdsk, try Hard Disk Validator. Download Hard Disk Validator - MajorGeeks

Also check your SMART values with Crystal Disk Info. CrystalDiskInfo – Crystal Dew World

Hard disk Sentinel is pretty decent as well. Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Let me guess, Segate? Buy a 2 TB Hitachi enterprise platter. I own two of these with over 20,000 hours used already. Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 HUA723020ALA640 (0F12455) 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Enterprise Grade) - w/1 Year Warranty - Newegg.com

There's a one year warranty from the seller and a three year warranty from Hitachi. You would probably have to register the drive with Hitachi.

 

[loninappleton]

Thanks for tips. Some I know but a couple of fresh ones. I know that Smart stats aren't available on one or more of my HDs when I check them before running a program from HDD Guru called HDD Low Level Format.
I've done that when boot sectors can't be recovered and so on.


Not the place for a hardware debate, but I'm sold on Seagate and the backup disk that stalled everything is an Hitachi. It's a backup HD because they make noise. I've never bought into the "Seagate fail rate". And I also know from places like HDD Guru that if purchased used, those Enterprise drives can have unusual bootup problems from things like installed passwords from "enterprises."


cheers and thanks as always to Sevenforums.

 

[Snick]

To check my drives I use SeaToiols. Yes, it works on most drives other than Seagate.
SeaTools for Windows | Seagate

A video on how to use the tool
Seagate | Seatools Diagnostics - YouTube

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