Windows 10: disk related 7 minute delay during boot

Hey!
My first post to please bear with me
Sorry for hijacking an old thread, but this thread is connected to my issue 100%.
Running windows 10 20H2, updated a month or so ago... and then is when the issue occurs.
Startup time has gone from 20 seconds to 7 minutes, and I didn't do anything special, besides upgrading to 20H2.
After some troubleshooting, and searching for answers, I saw that it's related to hard drive i/o.
So I disconnected all my drives one by one and kept only the OS drive.
Worked... but I was left without my drives.
Kept checking until I've reached a drive that if I plug it in, the startup time is 7 minutes again.
Why this is happening? the post is idling for a long time and nothing is loaded from the drive...
Would be nice if someone will help me, I don't want to format the OS drive.
Attached is a WPR record, from the tutorial in the first page.
let me know...

DESKTOP-47S4NGU.03-14-2021.23-59-12.Boot_1.etl - Google Drive

:)

 

Windows 1 minute startup delay

Many weird problems can cause these delays. I've had such delays due to the following:

1. Old DVD drive initialisation after a Windows update - removed the DVD since no longer needed.
2. Presence of an active boot partition on an external USB drive - partition changed to inactive
3. After updating Malwarebytes - reinstalled and was OK

The list is probably endless!

 

100% disk usage on boot up for at least 5 to 10 minutes

Hi there, I did a clean boot as you suggested and the boot up time became considerably longer and although disk usage was 100%, this was only for a minute or so. The program at the top of the disk utilisation list this time though was service host:superfetch.

However I then didn't disable anything in the services tab but disabled all the programs in the startup tab and restarted. This resulted in a very speedy boot up AND there was no 100% disk utilisation. I've done this several times enabling a couple of programs
on startup and the disk utilisation is no longer 100%.

It appears therefore as though it was some kind of conflict in the startup programs that was causing the 100% disk utilisation.

Thanks very much for your assistance.

 

Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?