Does a slower boot up speed tell you of a hard drive problem?

Question

I heard somewhere that the slower your computer takes to boot up, the more likely it is your hard drive is in trouble. Is that true?

For my part, it only takes mine 30 seconds to a minute to load.

Answer 1

If it keeps making short "read noises" with very short intervals and for a long time, it is a good indication of the drive problem. At the same time computer could be really slow if you got a load of spyware and trojans on the system.

Answer 2

It can also point to your hard drive being full of junk thats slowing your computer down, which is more likely

How long is it since you defragmented your hard drive?

Have you ever run a decent registry cleaner to remove all the junk that sits in windows registry?

Are there programmes on your system that you never use? remove them

Is windows starting stuff on boot up that is not needed? see about stopping them from booting on startup Winpatrol (see linky) is great for disabling things like Y! messenger at startup and speeding up windows

doing those 4 will speed up your boot up times

Answer 3

Depends on which stage of the boot-up it is slow at.

30s to 1 min ain't that bad. Causing the computer need time to load up the OS plus all the other programs (antivirus, antispam, aim, driver, office, etc) that you have installed.

Answer 4

NO it does not. It means one of two things...1) you are getting more used to your pc and are now waiting on it, this happens as pc's age; 2) your pc is starting to get full of programs that have been installed and deleted leaving remants in the Registry that the pc is still trying to load, but can't find. Editing the Registry is VERY dangerous!

Answer 5

no

slower boot speed usually means that the o/s is trying to start more programs, utilities, and nifty toys.

you know, like that freebie you downloaded yesterday.

on Windows XP, you Run msconfig from the command line and then look in the 'startup' tab to see everything that runs on startup. some are plenty silly -- adobe reader, for example.


GL

Answer 6

30 seconds dosen't really sound like a problem maybe 30 minites. and it dosen't mean its about to crash or anything like that it could just mean you need a disk defragment. (start>programs>system tools>disk defragment) it dosent delete anything just cleans up your hard drive a little.

Hope to help...)

Answer 7

not really it just means you have a lot of programs that need to be opened. try going to start menu and going to all programs then accessories and then disk defragmenter, this will put back together your files since pieces get scattered when you open them

Answer 8

Run a chkdsk to check your disk. Click START, RUN, Type CMD and hit Enter, then type chkdsk /f /x and hit Enter again. Then type EXIT and reboot.

Stuart

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