Windows 11 Lengthy Boot

Anonymous
2022-10-17T15:55:34+00:00

When I upgraded to Windows 11 recently, Windows no longer booted to the proper drive so I had to into the BIOS and select the Windows Boot Manager drive/partition. Now when it boots up in can take 45 seconds for the BIOS to start up. I assume it's looking for the boot drive, or there's something wrong with the boot drive. I think it has something to do with drive mapping.

When I go into Advanced option of WinRE, select Command line and execute a dir command for the C drive it shows my data drive. The D: drive has my Windows install. I've had a number of scary problems with my Windows 11 install so I really really don't want to touch anything unless I have expert guidance.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T05:26:57+00:00

    Can we move over to the other post so you can see what I've done so far. Many of the things listed above I don't think are necessary or appropriate given the things I've done already. Anyway if you reply to the other thread perhaps we could go from there?

    Thanks.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-freeze-issue-com-surrogate/0b48a8d8-9af6-4459-905a-274a905c579d?page=1

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T03:42:49+00:00

    Brian, please complete the steps I gave you which can find and fix problems like this.

    Nothing in the other thread is helpful for slow startup.

    If nothing else helps then we can advance to doing a Boot Trace which is explained here and works the same for Windows 11:

    https://illuminati.services/2021/03/10/how-to-c...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T03:32:58+00:00

    So on the original post - nothing wrong in the boot sequence stuff that would account for the lengthy boot. Any other ideas to explore.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T03:32:08+00:00

    When you didn't reply to Auggy in 2 days it removed the thread from him - this can happen if it's assigned to an Independent Advisor, although everyone else can see and join the thread too.

    Please continue with all steps I gave as they will almost always find and fix the problem, also by reporting back results as you go it can give me leads for other steps to suggest.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-18T03:13:55+00:00

    Thanks for your suggestions. I've determined that at the time of the momentary freeze one or more dllhost.exe host get kicked off, then exit. I've done a LOT of troubleshooting, the problem has persisted through the process of replacing all hardware except the motherboard and drives, eliminating all startup apps, pulling all peripheral, going from Windows 10 to Windows 11 etc etc. A Google drive folder has saved info from Process Explorer.

    The link to my thread on this is:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-freeze-issue-com-surrogate/0b48a8d8-9af6-4459-905a-274a905c579d?page=1

    Auggie hasn't responded since my last post so not sure if he's still involved. If you have the time and inclination you could join the fun.

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