[SOLVED] If I restart, boot takes 20-30 min, shutting down leads to normal boot

[Dimitri001]

This has been going on now for a long time, I can't remember when it started or what might have brought it about, but when I restart my computer, Windows will hang on that part of the boot where you just see a big blue Widnows icon against a solid black background and the little spheres moving in a circle loading animation underneath it. It will hang there for like 20-30 minutes.

There's no red light on the case that normally indicates the HDD is working, but I can hear the HDD scraping.

When I shut the computer down, on the other hand, boot is normal.

Any idea what might be causing this?

 

[Colif]

what are specs of the PC?

what brand HDD is it?

Restarts are the only time your computer is actually off. I can bet you have fast startup enabled.

it could be a drive problem or just a device that isn't answering windows right away at boot time.

 

[Bob.B]

This has been going on now for a long time, I can't remember when it started or what might have brought it about, but when I restart my computer, Windows will hang on that part of the boot where you just see a big blue Widnows icon against a solid black background and the little spheres moving in a circle loading animation underneath it. It will hang there for like 20-30 minutes.

There's no red light on the case that normally indicates the HDD is working, but I can hear the HDD scraping.

When I shut the computer down, on the other hand, boot is normal.

Any idea what might be causing this?

Just to take a peek.
Run a pass of crystaldiskinfo and post a screenshot for all disk.