HP Laptop extremely long startup time

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  1. Aragorn
    Posts : 7
    Windows 10
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    HP Laptop extremely long startup time


    Greetings All,

    I am writing with what appears to be a somewhat common problem with Windows 10. I am trying to troubleshoot my daughters 1 year old HP gaming laptops looooong startup time (10 min +). It started this behavior 3 or 4 months ago while at college. It is a HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop Model 15-cx0056wm windows 10 machine, version 20H2, fast start is not selected, it has been virus (AVG deep scan) and malware (Malwarebytes) scanned, defragmented (Auslogics) and only 2 items are enabled on the startup tab in task manager. I have run sfc/ scannow, which found a couple of errors that were corrected. I performed a clean boot as specified on this forum with a reboot time of 7 min 40 sec to login screen.

    Using WPR I have the following times for boot phases:

    Pre Session - 81.86

    Session Init - 240.18

    Winlogin Init - 218.41

    Explorer Init - 74.59

    Post Boot 129.3

    During this time storage ramps up to 100 and remains there or close 100% to for about 700 sec.

    A link to the WPR file on dropbox is below:

    Dropbox - WPR - Simplify your life


    Any suggestions on how to fix this for my daughter would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.
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  3. thomaseg1
    Posts : 13,301
    Windows 10 Pro (x64) 21H2 19044.1526
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    Check disk would certainly be in order
    Hdtune is a good analysis program
    along with crystal disk mark

    HD Tune website


    https://crystalmark.info/en/download/


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  4. Aragorn
    Posts : 7
    Windows 10
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    I just ran HD Tune and it indicates the health is ok and a quick error scan was good. I am running a longer scan now. Any further ideas?
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  6. zinou
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    windows 10
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    Hi @Aragorn and welcome to Tenforums.

    Please, compress the ETL file before uploading it. it's 2,57 Gigs, I can't downlod it.
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  7. Aragorn
    Posts : 7
    Windows 10
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    Sorry about that. I just uploaded a zipped version.

    Dropbox - LAPTOP-PKDDAF7G.10-22-2020.20-24-03.Boot_1.zip - Simplify your life

    Thanks!
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  8. zinou
    Posts : 898
    windows 10
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    HP Laptop extremely long startup time-capture1.png

    Your boot delays are insane! especially in the pre-session init phase and session init phase.
    I saw delays in loading drivers but I don't think it's a driver issue. at least not for now.

    What is evident is that during all the boot phases the disk activity is at 100%. I recommend starting troubleshooting from here.

    First do a disk scan test with Hard disk sentinel tool, to check the health of the disk => post a screenshot of the test result;

    Also, check the system log under the events viewer for errors or warnings related to the disk;

    HP Laptop extremely long startup time-capture2.png

    if all the above are good, then run this command to fix the prefetcher:

    xbootmgr -trace boot -prepSystem -verboseReadyBoot

    this reboots Windows several times, does a defrag, and trains the prefetcher again => This can take several hours, so be patient.

    In the end, take another boot trace, zip it, and upload it.
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  9. zbook
    Posts : 41,481
    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
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    Please run:


    - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.


    V2 and DM: (1) BSOD - Posting Instructions - Windows 10 Forums (tenforums.com)


    LOGS.bat
    - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.

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  10. Aragorn
    Posts : 7
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    I just finished the HD Sentinel surface scan and it yielded one bad block. I also checked the system log and there were a ton of disk errors all were for DR0 has a bad block.

    HP Laptop extremely long startup time-screensnap.png

    I was going to next try chkdsk c:/f /r to try to repair this, but I have to wait till tomorrow since my daughter needs her laptop. Does this seem reasonable?
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  12. zbook
    Posts : 41,481
    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
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    When available please update the progress with the steps in post #7.

    These are the best switches when running chkdsk: chkdsk /b /v C:
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  13. Aragorn
    Posts : 7
    Windows 10
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    Hi Zbook,

    Here are the links for post #7.

    Dropbox - Tuneup result.txt - Simplify your life

    Dropbox - LAPTOP-PKDDAF7G-(2020-12-13_21-42-51).zip - Simplify your life

    Dropbox - LOGS.zip - Simplify your life

    I will do the chkdsk tomorrow.

    Thanks for the help.
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