Why is XP Pro taking about 5 minutes to open XP after boot up?

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0700

I have seen this happen and it hinted the hard disk drive
was about to fail. After replacing the suspect drive,
boot times were back to acceptable.

Anon
>-----Original Message-----
>since i re-installed XP Pro SP1, XP Pro is taking aout 5
minutes to open XP
>after it boots and get to the 'XP Moving Eye', then it
opens XP and works as
>expected. it shuts down in a normal time.
>
>all the gear is the same as the previous XP Pro install
that worked as
>expected.
>
>any ideas?
>
>thanks,
>
>GrievousAngel
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