Re: Slow startup after repair install of Windows Server 2003

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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:39:02 -0800

Thanks for the reply. As it turns out, a diagnostic of the hard drive
revealed that it was at fault and failing. Using Drive Image I copied the
contents of the failing disk to a fresh one and everything is back to working
as it should. Phew!

"m.marien" wrote:

>
> "Dave Marcinowski" <DaveMarcinowski@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:32328A83-9653-4F4B-A39D-EA8FE31818F2@microsoft.com...
> > Anybody???
> >
> > "Dave Marcinowski" wrote:
> >
> >> The server crashed during a reboot CHKDSK and upon subsequent reboots it
> >> just
> >> plain failed to boot at all, forcing me to perform repair install of the
> >> OS.
> >> Everything is working once again but it is now significantly slower to
> >> startup the system.
> >>
> >> I am wondering what has gone fubar and if there's anything I can do to
> >> rectify the situation. It's not acting as a domain controller or anything
> >> more exotic than serving up ACCPAC to our local intranet and to one
> >> remote
> >> user via Terminal Services.
> >>
> >> I could live with it I suppose but I can't help feeling that something
> >> just
> >> is not right and I went through hell getting it back up again. I don't
> >> want a
> >> repeat of the experience so if anyone has suggestions or insight into the
> >> slow startup issue I'd be very eager to hear it.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> - Dave
>
> Sometimes strange things happen. If the computer crashed I would look at the
> BIOS setting. Perhaps some hardware is turned on (defaults set because of
> crash) that wasn't before and the system is looking for it. Some SATA hard
> drive detection routines seem to take forever. My hardware RAID hung Windows
> for at least a minute after the POST finished and before Windows started to
> boot. Turn off the PnP O/S in the BIOS. The BIOS can do the PnP settings.
> Windows sometime takes forever to do that function.
>
> You may also want to consider a clean install of the O/S and just restore
> the data. Clean installs seem to work much faster - for the first little
> while.
>
>
>

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