Reboot takes more than 4 minutes!

Anonymous
2015-12-20T11:32:39+00:00

I made a backup of my Windows 7. It includes a system image. Following this, the computer takes 4 minutes to reboot on every boot!

If I perform the very same backup without a system image, there is no impact on the boot time which is then around 30 seconds...

What happens?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-08-09T04:48:32+00:00

    I told you how to tell Windows to skip the integrity check a long time ago:

    Click the Start orb/button and in the box enter the following:

    cmd.exe

    Right click cmd.exe and choose to Run as Administrator:

    Now you can tell Windows NOT to check the integrity on the volume where your large backup is (if that is F) with this command:

    chkntfs  /x  f:

    That tells Windows NOT to check drive F when Windows starts...  when you reboot with the image backup are things better?  If so you could leave it like that but if there ever really is an integrity problem (if the volume becomes dirty for some reason) Windows will not know about it or try to fix it.

    After the experiment you can (and probably should) set things back to normal with this command:

    chkntfs  /d

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-09T04:53:05+00:00

    Ok good thanks!

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