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That means that something is wrong with your setup. Long startup times can be caused by badblocks in waiting on your hdd.


> Long startup times can be caused by badblocks

Windows reports (as of yesterday afternoon) no problems with any of my drives.

> That means that something is wrong with your setup.

Sure, possibly, but I installed Windows 10 on a clean drive in a new PC a couple of years back and if that's "setup wrong", how the hell is anyone supposed to get it right?




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