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win 10 takes 5+ minutes to boot on SSD (hangs on windows logo)
Hiya. i have had this issue for long time and i never bothered to look into this further, but now i'm asking help as its gotten quite annoying. i hope someone can help me fix it or identify the cause.
so here's my issue:
I have SSD and it's in perfect condition. when PC is running everything works smooth but if i reboot or shut down and boot again, then windows takes like 5-7 minutes to boot.
for past year i have been using hybernate or sleep because of the long boot time and it instantly resumes from hybernate or sleep.
I use truecrypt and my SSD is fully encrypted, when i use hybernate, i have to enter my password on boot and it all goes smooth, it restores the session from hiberfil.sys no problem!
however reboot / shutdown + boot will cause the long boot time again. i haven't measured exact time but it seems consistent around 5-7 minutes.
really weird thing is that after i enter my truecrypt pass, it instantly starts loading windows as it should, i see the windows logo, but then ALL of my USB devices turn OFF. LED lights on my keyboard, mouse and additional keyboard all turn off, while my headset's control unit and LEDs remains on. My headset is analog, but it uses USB to power lights only and those stay on, but anything that uses drivers turns off.
I suspect some USB driver issue, so that windows tries to load the driver over and over, but fails, this would explain why USB devices that need a driver, all turn off and why it takes consistent amount of time to boot.
i have tried yanking out all usb devices with no luck, so clearly not hardware issue.
it MIGHT be nvidia drivers issue, but that's something i'm not willing to reinstall. i use modded nvidia shadowplay (for offline use) and i only update drivers via device manager, its nightmare to reinstall it all.
basically what i'm asking: is there a way to analyze what is causing the issue?
ive enabled boot logging, but i dont see anything wrong there, i have attached the file if someone can take a look pls:
ntbtlog.txt
is there any way to enable some advanced analysis mode that would tell me the exact place where windows is hanging?
i'm sure i would be able to fix it myself if i would just know what to fix or where to even look.
PLS DONT tell me to reinstall or update windows, that is not an option for me. i have spent way too much time and effort on customising my windows. this boot time is only issue, everything else works nice and smooth! i do regular maintenance on my pc. stuff like run ccleaner with almost all options on, registry scans, defrag of other HDDs and so on!
update is not going to happen, because of truecrypt (long story short. i would have to make copy of ssd, put it onto backup ssd, decrypt, update, check if it works, encrypt, make a copy of backup ssd, put it back on primary, check if it works, then re-encrypt)
i usually remember what i changed but for couple months i used sleep and hybernate and i lost track of what i changed or installed, thats when the issue started. however i'm 99% sure its either nvidia drivers or some usb driver, could be ScpToolkit (it works fine, but i suspect it may cause issues during boot).
either way im not willing to blindly just comb in the dark and randomly butcher my windows one program, one driver at a time to find what is causing the issue.
i came here to look for a way to identify the trouble maker! and not bypass the issue by just removing everything or reinstalling. im not the kind of person to ignore or bypass the issue. i want to find out WHY this is happening and then tackle the trouble maker. i hope someone can help. thanks in advance.