Having issues booting my PC

[DarthFalcon]

Every time I have to boot my PC, whether it be just booting up because it's been off or because I have to restart, it takes at least 8 minutes to boot to the login screen, before it would take less than two minutes. This started happening one day after a power outage, and has happened every time since. The computer runs fine once it's booted, it's just getting it running that's an issue, and I'm worried that something might have been damaged by the power loss, I'm not using a surge protector on it. Are there any programs I can download that will check out my computer parts for issues? Preferably some that don't require a reboot, but if those are the only kind out there, guess I gotta use what I can get.

[Thor.]

I had that happen, if you have a power bar it would save it from a frying. Or some electrical storm shutting it down without powering it down safely. I recommend do a system repair or restore. Sometimes it would sort itself out over time, as it searches the registry. Missing files or corrupt files can slow down start ups in Windows, eventually if the there was no damage to the file system it will soon go back to normal.

Edited July 27, 2013 by Thor.

[hoofhearted4]

do a check disk from your command prompt. the power outage could have messed up your hard drive. also do a scan of your PC. could be some sort of virus or malware slowing your PC down at start up (which would mean the power outage is a coincidence which is possible)

[DarthFalcon]

ran chkdsk, it didn't find any problems, not sure how to do System Repair

[Thor.]

Press f8 as you exit Bios and there will be prompt of or list of things like system restore, and repair. Use the system repair first to check to see if it has anything it needs repairing. Have windows disk ready just in case.

even if there is nothing wrong with Windows its always safe to have a boot disk handy.

Edited July 27, 2013 by Thor.

[DarthFalcon]

System Repair won't erase anything will it? I ask since you mention the boot disk, I'd rather put up with the long boot time than spend 4 days reinstalling everything lol

[Thor.]

No it will only try to recover and fix any missing data that could of been misplaced during the power outage.

Edited July 27, 2013 by Thor.

[DarthFalcon]

the repair tool wouldn't run, something about an external device being plugged in, but nothing is unless it's detecting my mouse because it's a steelseries, one of those that has to have a program running for it to work right. Did manage to run the memory test though, it came back clean.

[Thor.]

Try booting several times, i had it happen to me once before during massive electrical storm. After about 10 boots it sorted itself out.

 

if it boots up without any error messages then you are still in the green.

 

If not you may need to restore windows with system restore or even worse clean install.

Edited July 28, 2013 by Thor.

[JimboUK]

Have you tried removing that external drive? a few years back I had a USB drive that took an age to start, needless to say it dramatically increased the boot time.