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Rob Payne

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Hi all,

For the last week or so the boot time for Windows 7 has drastically increased from approx 10 seconds from power on to desktop screen to around 2 minutes. This is booting from my SSD.

I'm relativeley inexperienced when it comes to problems with SSD but surely this can't be right?

I've just run an AS SSD benchmark and the results are as follows:

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As far as I am aware I have made no software or hardware changes that would have caused this problem (I did overclock my GPU a couple of weeks ago but I have since returned it to stock)

I have trim enabled.

Can anybody help shed some light on what the problem might be?

Thanks
 
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Boogieman_WD
Sure thing mate.
As for your question, I guess that starting everything from scratch (as described in your post) would make sense. If it's a software problem of some sort and neither BIOS/UEFI update or firmware update can fix that and if the drives are healthy, what you've suggested should work, unless there some sort of weird incompatibility issue (for which I doubt, but it's still possible).
So if it's not too much of a hassle for you - try it out.
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Hey there, Rob.

Do you remember installing or doing anything in particular around the time the issue occurred?
Try the drive with a different SATA port and cables, to see if the same thing happens. You should also backup your data, just to be on the safe side and after that, go ahead and download an SSD diagnostic tool and test the drive for errors.
Check if the SSD model has an available firmware update and if you find one - install it. Try updating/resetting your BIOS/UEFI, to see if that fixes the problem.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
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Thanks,

I've done all of these and no change. SSD is in good health but the boot up is still horrendous.

Not sure if it's relevant but I have two copies of windows 7, 1 on my C drive (SSD) the other on my D drive (HDD). I'm not sure if this is relevant because I unplugged the SATA cable for the HDD from the mother board and the boot was successful but just as slow. The C drive is also definitely the primary boot device (all others are disabled on the BIOS).

The hang up seems to be with windows rather than any of the hardware.

Thanks

 
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Hmm Perhaps if it's not too much of a hassle for you, a fresh installation of Windows might fix things up. If you decide to do that, please make sure to have just the drive you're installing Windows to, connected to the motherboard during the installation process. It's not a very common issue, but sometimes if a secondary drive is connected to the computer, some of the system files or the boor, system or other partition might be written on the secondary drive, which would cause issues.

At least it seems like the issue is not hardware related.
 
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Rob Payne

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I booted to safe mode and found that it was a driver (aswrvrt.sys) that was causing the hangup. This supposedly relates to Avast which I have since removed from my PC. The hangup has not gone though, rather the PC now hangs at classpnp.sys. As I said the machine still boots fully and I have had no other problems at all.

I wonder if I DBAN my second HDD to remove all files, partitions, and the old OS and then reinstall the OS again only on my SSD with the secondary drive disconnected this will resolve the slow boot?

It's not a major issue but a little annoying having paid for an SSD and having boot times considerably slower than even a laptop HDD.

Thanks for your help so far.
 
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Sure thing mate.
As for your question, I guess that starting everything from scratch (as described in your post) would make sense. If it's a software problem of some sort and neither BIOS/UEFI update or firmware update can fix that and if the drives are healthy, what you've suggested should work, unless there some sort of weird incompatibility issue (for which I doubt, but it's still possible).
So if it's not too much of a hassle for you - try it out.
 
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Rob Payne

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Thanks mate. In the end I ran DBAN on my HDD only. When I rebooted with the clean HDD connected it was lighting fast again. Evidently windows was confused with some of the old windows files on the HDD.

In any case it seems to be sorted now. Thanks!
 
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