rosj04

I just ran a boot timer I found and it clocked in at 23.301 seconds. Fairly happy with that

Hi, Found this thread after searching frantically for help regarding my boot up time, If you are willing to take a look I would be as happy as a kid on christmas! I'm running Windows 7 ultimate x64, and it has always worked flawlessly (more or less) until a few days ago when I started "cleaning" the system, ran CCleaner, Spybot S&D and generally optimising whatever I could think of. After this my boot time has gone from about 20 seconds (SSD disk) to 25 minutes! It gets stuck at the windows logo. Before I ran CCleaner, which deleted some registry settings amongst other things, I did a backup of the registry. Importing the backup didn't help with my issue. I've tried detaching all USB devices but that didn't solve the problem. I've restored default BIOS settings and that didn't help. I've run sfc.exe /scannow but it didn't find any errors. I've tried running Windows 7's startup repair but it can't find anything neither. Same with memtest and chkdsk. I found this thread, and I've run the boot trace. The first time it created a 2GB event file which, if I try to open in event viewer it says it needs to be converted to a new format at which point it creates a new file that keeps increasing in size until the file had grown to 12GB size and the disk space ran out. the second time I tried running the boot trace with the command listed above it created a 300MB event file. I assume this is still too large to be normal? This is what my latest boot trace showed in xbootmgr.log: [2010/11/24-15:15:21.306] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started. [2010/11/24-15:15:21.322] Registering for auto-run with a 120000 msec delay... [2010/11/24-15:15:21.322] Completed auto-run change. [2010/11/24-15:15:21.322] Starting trace... [2010/11/24-15:15:21.649] Enabled boot logging to 'C:\TEMP\boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' [2010/11/24-15:42:21.486] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started. [2010/11/24-15:42:21.501] Stopping trace... [2010/11/24-15:42:22.188] Stopped kernel logger. [2010/11/24-15:42:22.266] Stopped user-mode logger. [2010/11/24-15:42:22.266] The trace you are capturing "C:\TEMP\boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl" may contain personally identifiable information, including but not necessarily limited to paths to files accessed, paths to registry accessed and process names. Exact information depends on the events that were logged. Please be aware of this when sharing out this trace with other people. [2010/11/24-15:42:32.796] Merged ETL file to 'C:\TEMP\boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl' [2010/11/24-15:42:32.843] Waiting for prefetcher... [2010/11/24-15:47:23.283] Gave up waiting for Win7RTM physical prefetcher after 300 seconds. [2010/11/24-15:47:23.283] Could not wait for prefetcher. [2010/11/24-15:47:23.283] Stopping trace... [2010/11/24-15:47:23.346] Couldn't find kernel logger in active logger list. [2010/11/24-15:47:23.346] Couldn't find user-mode logger in active logger list. [2010/11/24-15:47:23.346] Unregistering auto-run... [2010/11/24-15:47:23.346] Completed auto-run change. What has me curious is the jump between 15:15:21and 15:42:21, since its exactly 27 minutes apart on the second. Furthermore, when checking windows event viewer I get this error around the same time I'm booting: Event ID 3, KernelEventTracing - "Session "Microsoft-Windows-Setup" stopped due to the following error: 0xC000000D" which occurred at 15:36:53' EDIT: Managed to look at the boot trace, seems the system gets stuck on loading classpnp.sys and partmgr.sys for 20 minutes. I'll go see if I can find a solution EDIT 2: Managed to solve the problem, I removed the IDE and ATA controllers in device manager. Rebooted and problem solved!