Not sure if this is related. We have a Win7 system with 24gb memory. It
has a 128gb SSD for the C: drive and 2 3TB hard drives mapped F: and G:.
In addition we have 6 external USB drives - 4 3TB and 2 4TB drives (all
are Seagate). This thing takes over 10 minutes to reboot. Luckily we
only use it for a backup for a local network and seldom have a need to
reboot. We have no idea why it takes so long but we figured it was (as
usual) sloppy M$ programming. Win7 is probably checking stuff on all the
drives for no reason. It is not a major problem for us since we hate
Crapsta/Win7/Win8x and continue to work on XP systems. We would like to
find a solution if anyone has any ideas. Note that all these drives were
originally on an XP system that rebooted fine, no delay. We only
installed Win7 because we wanted more than 4gb memory.
On 1/17/2014 12:19 PM, Joe Yoder wrote:
I have an Optiplex 320 box with a 3.2 gig Pentium 4 and 4 gigs of RAM. I
recently installed a new motherboard and a pair of 1 terabyte drives using
software RAID 0.
The machine has developed a nasty habit of hanging on bootup after a
Microsoft update Tuesday. The system loads and waits for a login. After a
login, it starts doing its thing and then stops responding. It seems as
though it always stops at the same place in the bootup cycle. There was a
time when I was convinced that if I kept moving the mouse when it was at
the critical point, it would continue and complete the startup cycle. This
could still be the case but I have gone further with trying to actually fix
the problem.
I was suspicious that the problem was related to the mirrored drive so I
broke the RAID and disconnected the second drive. The first reboot went
without a hitch but others have not. Most recently I had the hangup repeat
about 5 times and then selected boot logging during the startup. This time
the process completed and I have been using the machine since.
I had been thinking that it might be a good idea to add a separate system
drive but was reluctant to add another rotating device.. Then I got to
thinking about the advances is SSD technology so now I am considering
adding a SSL as the system drive.
Google tells me there are issues with block writes to and from a SSD and
that Server 2003 does not have the native ability to optimize for that
consideration. I understand there are ways to address that concern but
realize that I could end up investing too much time chasing it down.
If I could find a SSD in a kit with the software to optimize the OS to work
with it and provide a way to copy the OS to itself, I would probably buy it.
Any ideas welcome - TIA
Joe
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