SSD long time boot

[mrbothered]

Hi all,
I have been using a 840 pro as my C drive for 18 months with no problem, very happy with it. About a month ago it started hanging at the 'Starting Windows' screen. After a little investigation I replaced the SATA cable and everything went back to normal (coincidence?) A couple of week later and it started again. This time it all went back to normal after I ran the performance optimization (coincidence?) Now it has started again. I have bought a new cable, ran everything on the drive I could and even reinstalled windows, (not a clean install) Nothing seems to fix this. I am beginning to think it may be a driver loading problem or something daft as the benchmarks from the drive look ok. It hangs with the Starting Windows and my USB lights are on (keyboard, mouse etc) it sits there for one minute then the USB lights go out and the desktop comes to life. It used to boot in 15-20 seconds, now it is about a minute and a half. Could anybody suggest what to do?
Cheers.

 

[ingtar33]

sounds like you have a faulty/failing usb device. unplug them all and see if you boot faster.

that type of error is very common with failing external hard drives, though i suppose it could happen with ANY usb device.

you can also run WD Data Lifeguard and test your hard drive(s), see if there are errors being reported, or it finds anything wrong. And i'd check the health of the SSD with samsung magician.

 

[mrbothered]

Thanks for that, does that only test WD drives though?

 

[ingtar33]

Thanks for that, does that only test WD drives though?

it will also give a "SMART" report from a SSD... which is cool. but most of the utilities in datalifeguard don't work on SSDs... that's why i pointed to the samsung magician. in theory that software is designed for your hard drive.

 

[mrbothered]

Thankyou intar33. I disconnected every USB device, no change. I then disconnected all SATA plus and it fixed the problem. It turned out to be an old 120Gb seagate drive, I don't use and had forgotten it was even there. Thanks again.

 

[ingtar33]

Thankyou intar33. I disconnected every USB device, no change. I then disconnected all SATA plus and it fixed the problem. It turned out to be an old 120Gb seagate drive, I don't use and had forgotten it was even there. Thanks again.

no problem. I work in this field and i happened to run into this type of boot issue several times before, and it was always caused by a failing hard drive.

Just experience really.