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So I'm a bit late with this one, I bought a new SSD and two HDD's for my computer back in July. Specifically 2 HGST 3TB Deskstar's and a Sandisk Extreme pro 960GB. I swapped out one of my old dead drives and did a reinstall of Windows 7 to the new ssd as I figured it would be faster. When I'm in windows itself the SSD works wonderfully, nothing to complain about, but the boot up time is a tragedy. My old Samsung 840 120GB would boot up quickly enough so the windows 7 orb animation would never be finished. With the new Sandisk I'm stuck in the orb/flag animation for 30-60 seconds.

I'm not sure what info to provide here other than personal experience. The SSD isn't slow inside windows as all programs load in a flash. If it matters, I have 4 partitions on the SSD done.
1. is the System reserved.
2. is the Windows C: drive that I try not to use.
3. is the main partition that I use for programs.
4. is 10 gigs of unallocated space, I remember reading that SSD need a small amount of free space for swap space as the cells get filled.
 
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If AHCI is set in the BIOS and it boots from the SSD, it was enabled to begin with (if it wasn't and you switched it later, the SSD wouldn't boot).

The secure boot is interesting though. If it's showing N/a in the utility, then it's not truly enabled. Try disabling it in your BIOS - I bet it's causing the confusion, and may rectify your boot times. Try that first, then try disabling fast boot too.

A lot of the settings (AHCI, Fast Boot, Secure Boot) generally have to remain as they were at the time of install (whether the settings were ideal), otherwise you can see boot 'hangs'.

If you would like the 'easy' solution, a reinstall of your OS with AHCI, FB & SC enabled should rectify the issue - but that might not be so easy since...
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I'm not 100% sure, I didn't change any settings in UEFI before or after I installed my OS. But that doesn't really say if I had. Is there a way to check it?
 
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Yes, enter the BIOS and see what mode is stated. Should be AHCI/IDE/RAID (I think there's one other option too).
Sandisk should have an SSD monitoring utility available on their website, and one of the 'status;' options inside the utility is "AHCI enabled" with Yes/No.

If it's not AHCI, the only sure-fire way to rectify it is to reinstall the OS with the correct mode enabled.

If your board is the VI Hero in your sig though, it should be AHCI as standard (I believe).

Do you have fast/secure boot enabled?
 
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In BIOS I have AHCI mode on (if it matters Asus doesn't allow hybrid modes, just individual) Fast Boot is on, that I changed after installation as I noticed the slow boot times. Secure boot is on too and is set to Windows UEFI mode in BIOS.

Sandisk SSD dashboard shows that in System Details Secure Boot is N/A so I don't think it's enabled truly. I couldn't find anything related to "AHCI enabled".
 
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If AHCI is set in the BIOS and it boots from the SSD, it was enabled to begin with (if it wasn't and you switched it later, the SSD wouldn't boot).

The secure boot is interesting though. If it's showing N/a in the utility, then it's not truly enabled. Try disabling it in your BIOS - I bet it's causing the confusion, and may rectify your boot times. Try that first, then try disabling fast boot too.

A lot of the settings (AHCI, Fast Boot, Secure Boot) generally have to remain as they were at the time of install (whether the settings were ideal), otherwise you can see boot 'hangs'.

If you would like the 'easy' solution, a reinstall of your OS with AHCI, FB & SC enabled should rectify the issue - but that might not be so easy since you've likely got everything configured the way you want it over the past 6 months.
 
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Disabling both Secure Boot and Fast Boot, or leaving one or the other on, didn't affect boot times. So I'm going to try and do a reinstall of windows.
 
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