Extremely Slow Boot to Windows 7
Win 7 Home Premium SP1. 64 bit.
My PC is only 8 months old, and about a week ago it started having the 3-5 minute boot to Windows. It only happened on the 1st (cold) boot up of the day. After that it took it's usual 60-75 seconds. It would consistently hang after the desktop was displayed, but before the items in the Task Bar Notification area would finish loading, such as WiFi.
I burned and ran the Windows 7 System REPAIR (not Recovery) disk, which found that I had some issue with the boot manager, which it claimed to fix.
After that, the problem continued, but only on the 1st boot in the morning.
Started to seem like a HDD problem to me, so I cloned the drive to a brand new HDD, and installed it. Problem gone.
I also ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on the suspect HDD, which was 100% normal. Same with ChkDsk.
BUT... then I reinstalled the suspect HDD, and haven't had the problem since.
I think I have a curse for Intermittent problems.
In any case, I'm not much of a believer in problem healing itself and never returning, so now I wait for it to come back.
Has anyone run into this before, or have any thoughts on what's going on?
Thanks so much...