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Dual-boot with XP causes long boot time
One of my systems was dual-booted with two WinXPx32 installs. It was lightning fast when booting. The system has a 3GHz i5 CPU, 4GB RAM and the system disc is a SSD. BIOS, not UEFI and MBR.
I decided to reformat the second WinXP partition and install Win10x64 as a replacement. Since doing so, I get a blank screen for about 1.5 minutes until the boot options appear on the screen when booting or rebooting.
Is this normal when dual-booting Win10 with an old OS? I haven't dual-booted anything in years but I've never encountered a delay like this with any other OS. Just to be clear, once the boot menu displays, which ever OS I choose to boot, boots very fast. It just takes forever for the boot menu to appear. I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this.