Desktop is taking 3-4 hours to turn on.

Chrisharry12345

I am hoping this is an easy fix.. I have attached an image of where it hangs for hours. Once it is on it is fine but just getting there is the problem!

I have ran virus scans, malware scans, defragged the hd.

I am currently running speccy to get the pc stats so ill upload when its done

Thanks

Chrisharry12345

       

Storage seems to be taking a while to analyse and CPU a bit hot considering its not doing much?

EndlessWaves

Potentially a failing drive then, make sure your backups are in good order.

That's after the UEFI and during windows startup so what does event viewer show is happening?

Chrisharry12345

It still hasn't finished analysing the HD so maybe thats what it is

I am just on the event viewer now but I am not sure what I am looking for. Their are errors in the last 24 hours but nothing that comes up as critical..

techquest

It could be the drive but also try swapping the cables and the port.

Johnmcl7

To begin with I'd just check the timing in the event log and look for the shutdown and startup events, when you shutdown the PC there will be a flurry of messages about services stopping then a message about the PC being powered down and then the event logs will stop.  They will start again when Windows reaches that point in the boot cycle so I'd be looking to see if there's a large gap between shutdown and start up (even if it was a simple restart), a very slow startup through the log entries, a single log entry being very slow or the event logs being a normal speed.  

I'd also look for any events that are marked as 'disk' as Windows will log if it had trouble writing to blocks or timed out.

Is it a hard drive rather than an SSD you're using?  For a quick check you can look in task manager and see what sort of speeds you're getting or you can download a utility to directly check them.

Chrisharry12345

So the OS is on an SSD but it seems the larger hard drive is corrupt or something as it wont show up in my computer. I have downloaded gsmartcontrol to try and run a test on the hard drive and it appears but wont access it so I am guessing its broken I will remove it when I get home and I presume it will boot normally again.

It has all my pics of my daughter on with on google pics as a backup  for the more recent pics so hopefully I can get it going enough to at least copy it.

Its not that old either!

Chrisharry12345

       

This was when i booted it on sunday so 1 hour 50mins I think?

Will I Aint

I've had similar symptoms with a mapped drive causing a long delay on boot with SSD and 2 disk drives. removing the problematic disk should fix the boot issue.

Hopefully your google pics backup will be the same quality as the originals.  For safety i'd leave the disk out until you have a replacement available as assuming you can get it to register you might have a limited window to copy files across.

It's a good opportunity to check both ends of the disk cable (assuming SATA) although unlikely to be that as they are well secured with clips, same for the molex.

There are tools that will scan an attached drive even if windows is not showing it, i don't recall off hand but they are on my desktop at home.  Hirens boot disk and some others are useful to keep handy.  I've seen issue with the disk controllers which can be flashed as well leaving the disk contents intact.  Do you recall any noisy reads and clicks from the disk?

Hillskill

Do you have any additional peripherals connected during bootup? Webcams, external HDDs etc? Very similar thing (although not hanging as long as yours) was happening to one of my workstations. In the end I unplugged a memory card reader that was built into the case. I unplugged it from the motherboard headers and the machine now boots in about 20secs