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Microsoft, to my surprise and amazement, provides a suite of system tools designed for Windows - SysInternals. In the Process Utilities pack of tools, the Process Monitor application (ProcMon64.exe) performs boot time logging of all system operations. As I understand it, this is precisely the...

The first responder is the best answer/solution without a doubt. If you're unaware of the difference in performance, you're in for a stunning surprise! Not only is it your biggest and best upgrade to system performance, it'd almost certainly be the cheapest as well - a 500 GB SSD can be...

I understand being unable to boot into the OS limits your ability to troubleshoot, but the possible causes seem too broad to effectively determine the actual problem. Are you able to use a 'Recovery/Rescue' disk to boot into an alternative shell ... perhaps gain access to a command prompt or any...