Windows 10: Super slow boot spinning dots of death Windows 10

I have a PC here that takes about a half hour to boot. It sits on the spinning dots for a rediculously long time. I have tried pretty much everything on the internet currently. Does anyone have anything else? Also, would Microsoft support not try to answer this as you guys very rarely give us anything useful. I am not going to reinstall windows 10. I have tried:- repair- reverting to previous version There are none- repair from recovery disk- Bootfix- driver update- removed latest updates- turned off everything in startup This is before startup anyway- defrag- regedit to reset some se

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windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

10 Tips for SSD Optimization in Windows 7 - Part 1

Looks to be similar to this: https://www.back2gaming.com/focus-story/ssd-optimization-for-windows-10-windows-8-and-8-1/


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.

 

Spinning Dots at Boot Up


Sorry to resurrect. Just wanted to post to say pulling the battery worked for me, so thank you very much!! The spinning dots were doing my nut in. They would sit there forever, although if I pressed ctrl alt del, they would oddly decide to move on and boot. But pulling the battery now makes it boot properly super fast without the dots.

 

Booting sysprep cloned image to spinning dots

hi.

So I have imaged a Windows 10 HE that I have sysprep /generalize to OOBE on virtualbox.

And written back that image (YES disk image not vm disk, don't ask me how) to my HP Stream 10 netbook.
After fixing issue with the boot process, it boots now to the HP logo and the spinning dots.

I am assuming Windows 10 is starting to load but fails ?

What could be the issue ? given that it is a sysprep generalized image, I am guessing it should be ok for the drivers, right ? What step of the boot process is it ? Why is it stuck in it ?

What could the problem with those spinning dots and how to fix it ?