Vista bootup taking long time (moved from Vista Forum)

[Spekta]

For some reason when i boot up Vista, it stays on the green loading bar, for no fooling about 20+ minutes (no exaggeration whatsoever). I have no idea why it does this, but it's starting to get annoying. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[AnnMarie]

Hi Spekta. Try booting into Safe Mode (restart your computer and tap F8 continuously as it restarts). Does it still take 20 minutes for the Desktop to load?

[Spekta]

I seem to have located the problem.

I have an 80GB samsung harddrive installed as my slave. When booting into safe mode, the log stalls for 15+ mins at

WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/CRCDISK.SYS

I disconnected my slave harddrive and the computer booted perfectly with no hassles. I reconnected it and it takes forever again. So it has something to do with my slave drive. Although i scanned it with SpinRite and no errors were detected.

I WOULD just not use the harddrive except i need it, my master is only 10GB.

Any help is greatly appreciated

[AnnMarie]

Your bios may need updating but I'm not an expert in this area so I'm transferring your topic to our Hardware Forum for more help.

[cHiNgY1788]

What are your PC specs?
more specifically what is the brand and model of your motherboard?

[Spekta]

<<< System Summary >>>

> Mainboard : MSI MS-7222

> Chipset : VIA P4M800CE

> Processor : Intel Pentium D 940 @ 3200 MHz

> Physical Memory : 1536 MB

<<< Mainboard >>>

> Manufacturer : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD

>> General Information
Product : MS-7222
Version : 2.00
Serial Number : Unspecified
Unique ID : FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF
SKU : Unspecified
Family : Unspecified
Start mode : Power Switch

> Mainboard : MSI MS-7222

>> General Information
Manufacturer : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD (MSI)
Product : MS-7222
Version : 2.00
Serial Number : Unspecified
Support MP : Yes, 1 CPU(s)
Version MPS : 1.4

> Bios : Phoenix Technologies, LTD

>> General Information
Manufacturer : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version : V3.20
Date : 11/24/2006 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Address : 0x0 on 512 KB
Copyright : Copyright (C) 2003, Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Motherboard ID : 11/24/2006-P4M800Pro-823-6A7L6M4AC-00
OEM Signature : PM8PM W7222VMS V3.20 112406 19:25:10
DMI Version : 2.3


>> Boot Information
Selectable Boot : Yes
CD-ROM Boot : Yes
PC Card (PCMCIA) Boot : No
I20 Boot : No
LS-120 Boot : Yes
1394 Boot : No
ATAPI ZIP Boot : Yes
Network Boot : No




I dont know what you need from there, but yeah. Hope it helps.

[simonc2303]

HI ya . I not an expert on vista but o I had the same problem and in the end i pinned it down to during an update shortly after installed the o/s ichose to update a load of language packs that i didnt really need. some were in excess of 1Gb . after looking art several forums i found out that the language packs can cause a v slow boot up in (my case over 30 mins ) because the language packs take up a lot of space. In the end i had no alternative but to do a fresh install .. I then just hid all language pack updates and it worked fine .. I would install vista on your 80Gb hard drive though ... I know ity a pain doing a re install but it has been the only thing i found that seems to cure the problem ..


Hope it helps you

[Spekta]

I would install it on the 80GB but when i did, i always got an error saying "bootmgr.exe" is missing or some other file is missing. I always got it and i dont know why.