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Delay in Booting

05/14/2012 11:37 PM

My system shows delay in booting. For the moment of observation SMPS is turned on but the first turn on is showing this delay. Please share possible diagnosis?
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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 12:07 AM

which os?

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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 1:16 AM

WinXP Professional SP2 32bit
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05/15/2012 1:19 AM

BTW I like that movie dude
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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 2:01 AM

How long of a delay?

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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 2:16 AM

6 to 10 minutes for first attempt of the day only.
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05/15/2012 4:00 AM

What system?

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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 4:54 AM

when did you install it? you could use CCleaner to clean unwanted files, clean the registry. Defragment the harddisk.

(do you have virus scanner installed?)

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Re: Delay in booting

05/15/2012 5:08 AM

I don't remember the date of installing it, probabily an year back.I don't have any idea of Ccleaner,cleaning registery.The analysis says no need to defrag. I do have Kaspersky AV recently installed.
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Re: Delay in Booting

05/15/2012 3:20 PM

Is there anything on the screen during this delay (for example is the computer performing a disk scan at startup or going in to a start up menu with an automatic timeout)?

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05/15/2012 9:37 PM

No response from screen.
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Re: Delay in Booting

05/15/2012 9:32 PM

CCleaner is a free downloadable program to clean your computer system.

maybe some usefull info here

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6142_102-352329/very-slow-boot-up/

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05/15/2012 9:44 PM

Thank you
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Re: Delay in Booting

05/15/2012 10:17 PM

Today a new problem arise this

Got it fixed with chkdsk /r command but its cumbersome to do it frequently
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Re: Delay in Booting

05/15/2012 10:39 PM

If you are having to do a chkdsk repair frequently, I'd run diags on the hard drive. The issue is probably bad sectors on the drive. Yous can try a low level format to see if that corrects it. Also, intermittent RAM can cause write problems to the drive which would corrupt the file structure.
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05/16/2012 12:16 AM

That makes sense coz I used dual booting with linux and I don't know how to uninstall linux.To my idiotism I played with grub booter and its no more visible during booting, leaving me an unaccessible drive space.

Looking forward to install a fresh XP if that is what you mean

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Re: Delay in Booting

05/16/2012 11:03 AM

Something that might come in handy to you if you are having issues because of dual booting, is EasyBCD. You can find it here.

I dug this up when I was trying to test Windows 8 on a machine.
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