disk related 7 minute delay during boot

orbittwz said:

Hey!
My first post to please bear with me :)
Sorry for hijacking an old thread, but this thread is connected to my issue 100%.
Running windows 10 20H2, updated a month or so ago... and then is when the issue occurs.
Startup time has gone from 20 seconds to 7 minutes, and I didn't do anything special, besides upgrading to 20H2.
After some troubleshooting, and searching for answers, I saw that it's related to hard drive i/o.
So I disconnected all my drives one by one and kept only the OS drive.
Worked... but I was left without my drives.
Kept checking until I've reached a drive that if I plug it in, the startup time is 7 minutes again.
Why this is happening? the post is idling for a long time and nothing is loaded from the drive...
Would be nice if someone will help me, I don't want to format the OS drive.
Attached is a WPR record, from the tutorial in the first page.
let me know...

DESKTOP-47S4NGU.03-14-2021.23-59-12.Boot_1.etl - Google Drive

Hello orbittwz and welcome to TF ,

"Kept checking until I've reached a drive that if I plug it in" - what is it? You mentioned multiple drives and I'm confused about "it". Run Crystal Disk Info to check health with all drives connected - what is the health of "it" drive and other drives?

@zinou @steve108, thanks!
this thread is related to my issue so as I said before, instead of opening the same issue, I will update this one...
all my hard drives are working fine, and worked fine before the update...
I have no issues once the boot sequence is finished, I can access the drive mentioned and use it OK.

EDIT: oh seems I was moved to a new thread... OK thanks...

orbittwz said:

@zinou @steve108, thanks!
this thread is related to my issue so as I said before, instead of opening the same issue, I will update this one...
all my hard drives are working fine, and worked fine before the update...
I have no issues once the boot sequence is finished, I can access the drive mentioned and use it OK.

EDIT: oh seems I was moved to a new thread... OK thanks...

Drives working fine vs checking health are two different things.

drive D is causing the slow boot... didn't caused before 20H2, with 2004 it was fine.
my drives health are great, ironically drive D is the most new, with only 10525 PoH.
crystaldisk shows all GOOD

orbittwz said:

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drive D is causing the slow boot... didn't caused before 20H2, with 2004 it was fine.
my drives health are great, ironically drive D is the most new, with only 10525 PoH.
crystaldisk shows all GOOD

Task Manager -> Startup. Disable everything non-critical as a test , reboot, and see if there's any change.

I did that already, also did the prefetch refresh instructions...
The ASMedia 106x SATA controller disable... I don't know about that, it might get my computer unresponsive...

EDIT: to add to the startup, it says "Last BIOS Time: 9.4 seconds"
so it's idling something before starting normally