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Hm, well the problem now is that the diagnostic tools are not picking up the errors... I don't want to open it up because I'm afraid of breaking the laptop as a whole

It happens pretty frequently. The boot up time varies from 1 minute to 8 minutes. It is really ridiculous. I have an event log of it going for 497 seconds and I find that disturbing. I'll do another trace as soon as I get to school. [edit] http://www.mediafire.com/file/iqghzjfua0gy1li/boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl http://www.mediafire.com/file/u5b3tlofqgqso45/summary_boot.xml I've noticed that the PreSMSS took much longer than the SMSSInit this time instead of vice versa. What is going on?

I did both a scan through the CMD prompt with the Windows DVD and a scan with the WD Diagnostic Tool. Nothing came up and this time I'm pretty sure it took AT LEAST 8 minutes to go pass the Starting Windows screen >_>.

Nevermind, said something stupid :<

the Session Init Phase takes too long: <interval name="SMSSInit" startTime="4221" endTime="76356" duration="72135"> I can see that the autchck.exe is running and next there is a huge delay. So you may have an issue with your WDC WD32 00BEVT-22ZCT. Scan the HDD with diagnostic tools. That is crazy. Not saying that you're wrong but if that really is the case, I think I might need to get it replaced! I've already ran HDD Regenerator and HDTune and nothing came up. The HDD was my top suspect for this but the tools convinced me it wasn't. Do you recommend any HDD diagnostic tools besides HDTune and HDD Regenerator? [edit] also it's a laptop

Hi, I've been having this issue for a year now. I did the steps you suggested but I'm unsure of how to read my logs. Can you help me with this? http://www.mediafire.com/file/nvcuknji8cajany/boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl http://www.mediafire.com/file/nxtumlntf61xm44/summary_boot.xml Those are my etl and summary files. I've checked the summary log but I'm not sure how to figure out which is slowing my boot up.