Windows 10 boot time problem.

philc43 said:

OK, I wonder if a restart was needed after changing the settings to enable hibernate?

Nope nothing in the tutorial about rebooting the system.

philc43 said:

I'm sadly out of ideas - hope someone else can step in!

Yeah that thought was slowly but surely creeping up on me.

From what I saw in your Disk Management. It is in fact a mess. You have 2 System Reserved partitions: I: and E:. Normally System Reserved partition is hidden (No drive letter assigned), I: is not being used because it is not marked "Active" and you also have 2 partitions marked as Active: C: and E: so my guess is your Windows is not using E: either but was booted up using the Boot Manager in C:.

There are many reasons for slow boot up.

1. Invalid drivers
2. One of the HD corrupted so Windows is having hard time to identify it.
3. External USB devices
4. System files corruption

I suggest to disconnect all HD's and external USB devices except the Windows drive and boot up to make sure that it is booting without the System Reserved partition. If it does, marked the E: partition "Inactive". Please report back what you find....

topgundcp said:

From what I saw in your Disk Management. It is in fact a mess. You have 2 System Reserved partitions: I: and E:. Normally System Reserved partition is hidden (No drive letter assigned), I: is not being used because it is not marked "Active" and you also have 2 partitions marked as Active: C: and E: so my guess is your Windows is not using E: either but was booted up using the Boot Manager in C:.

There are many reasons for slow boot up.

1. Invalid drivers
2. One of the HD corrupted so Windows is having hard time to identify it.
3. External USB devices
4. System files corruption

I suggest to disconnect all HD's and external USB devices except the Windows drive and boot up to make sure that it is booting without the System Reserved partition. If it does, marked the E: partition "Inactive". Please report back what you find....

Well today computer booted up within 20 seconds so whatever it was must have disappeared somehow.

And about my disk management, it's quite easy to understand how it works: C: is using the system reserved in E: <-- that is my best guess because I kind of created the I: drive, like after I had done the migration from G: to C: there was left an unallocated space of 448MB and I thought that if I name it as system reserved it would fix itself somehow.

philc43 said:

Well, that's good to hear even if it is a mystery why it is back. Maybe fast start-up has reactivated itself.

Why can't we just be happy that it's back?

philc43 said:

Agree, it's best not to mess around if everything is working. Its just me, I don't like mysteries!

Have a great day!
Phil

But wouldn't you say that it adds to the awesomeness of the mystery if you can't understand or solve it?