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So it seems to be a M.2 NVMe drive.
Some of them require dedicated drivers.Open Device manager. Is there any yellow alerts of missing drivers?
You didn't do a clean install. A reset uses installation files on the computer that can be corrupted.
To do a Clean Install you must boot from a USB Win 10 installation drive and delete all partitions on the drive. If you have any Factory recover partition it is not updated an is useless.
- Create a USB Win 10 installation drive using MCT
- Boot from the USB Win 10 installation drive
Windows can be installed in two ways: Legacy-MBR or UEFI-GPT
To install as Legacy-MBR you must boot the installation drive as Legacy
To install as UEFI-GPT you must boot the installation drive as UEFI.
As you have a UEFI BIOS, you should install as UEFI-GPT
Detach any other drives (SATA or Power cable) from the MB.
During POST, press F8(?) to launch the boot menu. You will see two options for the USB drive. USB UEFI (Name) and USB (Name). Select USB UEFI (Name) if you want to install as UEFI-GPT or select USB (name) if you want to install as Legacy-MBR.
Go to install and delete ALL partitions on the main drive till you have one and only one unallocated space and then proceed.
If you don't want to use MS account, don't enable updates or connect to the internet during installation.
Does booting into Safe Mode have any effect on the time?
Ok so first you call it a HDD, then a SSD and now a m.2 ssd. You made us guess without giving us detailed information to start with.
Anyhow with that aside, have you checked for any firmware updates for it?
If not, look here. Support | ADATA
I'll ask the same about the motherboard, have you updated it recently or checked to see if it had available updates?
There is not an exact match for a "prime b450" but double check your motherboard for the full name, find it at the link below, then click Support, after that you'll find the Driver and Utility page, you can search for your firmware from there.
This list is curated to show only b450 motherboards which is why I requested you double check the board name. A program such as Speccy will pull this information automatically for you.
All series|Motherboards|ASUS Global
Also seeing as you have a ryzen 3600, here are the chipset drivers to get that updated. After you get it all done, you should have a much faster experience.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/chips...ocket-am4/b450
DO NOT WIPE THAT BOOT DRIVE FOR A REINSTALL YET!! Disconnect all other drives and see what happens. More than once I have seen a secondary drive going bad cause this problem. Once the PC is booted up it will seem fine. I use older drives for backup purposes and occasionally one will start going bad and cause boot times of up to almost 1/2 hour. Usually they are mechanical drives, but last week an older Kingston SSD drive one of my business PCs caused the problem.
Have you tried booting up with that Corsair drive unplugged? Very likely it will boot normally. I think most of the answers you get just MIGHT be making this much harder than it needs to be. At least, for your sake I hope so. If you have a DVD drive unplug that also.
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" I only have one, besides for an external exfat 215 gig usb Corsair hard drive." A USB drive absolutely can do this. If she will unplug it we will know right away.
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/3...M7tOk61O6j623I
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sorry for the late response , the computer boots up slow from restarts , and from a shut down. It is slow after the bios screen turns into the asus screen with a circle moving around for 8 minutes. Then once the login page shows up it is fast. I have 413 gigs free on my 512 gig xpg ssd. I tried crystal disk info but not crystal disc mark. i will try wei soon.
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I have tried unplugging everything , didn't help. all usbs, even my keyboard and mouse .. it said no keyboard and continued to boot for 8 minutes.
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If I do a clean install , does the windows 10 usb installation allow me to delete partitions? Will it delete the factory recovery partition? I have a uefi bios i believe yes.
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http://speccy.piriform.com/results/3...M7tOk61O6j623I
I am sorry if I confused you. I thought I wrote ssd, and looking back I don't see where i posted hdd . I just learned ssd's can come in different types. I updated the firmware for it , xpg adata drive, and it didn't fix the slow boot time. I updated all the drivers I could find on the asus website under my motherboard. asus PRIME B450M-A, including the chipset drivers. It didn't help.
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wei score was 8.5
I just realized i used crystal disc before i installed much and this was the result.