Weird Windows 7 boot issues

[nwo]

Hello,

I recently purchased Manufacturer Recertified OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX100G 2.5" 100GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) as a boot up drive for my second gaming rig. I originally installed it on my ancient s939 system and had no issues whatsoever neither with the windows 7 boot or installation.

When I was installing windows 7 on my new rig (i5 3570k) I had some minor issues with the windows 7 installation and now I am having issues every time I boot.

Every time the PC boots up after it gets past the windows 7 logo, welcome, and then it just shows the desktop background (all black) without any icons and trays. It just hangs there for a while. Usually a minute or two.

I know it should not be taking that long with an SSD and it probably wouldn't take that long with a HDD since it is a fresh install.

What steps can I take to troubleshoot this issue? What is the name of that utility that specifically scans SSDs to make sure they are healthy? I already checked to make sure ACHI is enabled in BIOS and other than that I haven't done anything other than changing boot priority (to my SSD) and plugging it into another SATA port.

 

[Elixer]

Could be corruption going on.
Did you check the SMART status of the SSD ? Use something like crystaldiskinfo to check it.
Check your event logs as well, to see if you see any errors/warnings.

 

[nwo]

I don't know what the heck I did this time (besides downloading crystaldiskinfo), but I just restarted my PC and it booted up nice and quickly for the first time!

Hopefully it will stay this way because it was consistently hanging after the welcome screen on just about every single boot.

 

[Doomer]

Recertified OZC is teh suck.

 

[nwo]

Recertified OZC is teh suck.

Yeah but considering I was on a budget since I just built another gaming rig, it was a good purchase @ $45...

 

[Z15CAM]

I take this is not a clean install but rather you used a BackUp Image or just transferred the SSD to another PC.

A Dead DeskTop usually happens when the USER's "My Documents" can not be located. OPEN NOTEPAD and choose Save As. This gives you a Browser where you can Copy "My Documents" to whatever Partition or location the OS expects it to be located.

This is the Prime Reason why I Logon on as a "TEST" User when Dumping a Win7 [64] SP1 Sys-Prep "MASTER" Image thus ensuring I have access to Windows Explorer to make adjustments so I can LogOn as my usual Administrator after a ReBoot and assign the proper Drive Letters ;o)

 

[nwo]

I think you might be right, Z15CAM. I recently moved all the "My" folders from my SSD to my HDD. After doing so, I think I permanently fixed the issue.

The Windows 7 installation was a clean install using the OEM system builder DVD I recently purchased from newegg. I have done a clean install on both the first PC I had the SSD in, and then I formatted the SSD and did another clean install for my current PC.

 

[Johnny4]

This tool can only be run on systems booted using a PC/AT BIOS. This system was booted using EFI or some other firmware type.

 

[robertkey]

my laptop also doesn't boots windows 7 in bios i have to install it by starting the setup from windows hence i cant get the c drive formatted before installation if anyone has any answers please do share