Boot Camp + win 7 = Slow Startup (really slow)

What's that feature in Windows? turbo boost using flash memory card?

[ReadyBoost?|http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/ready boost]

AutoCAD is probably sucking the resources dry. You need more HDD space. Not sure if any of the applications to increase disk size will improve startup performance, since they too have to load. How do you feel about blowing out the current partition and creating a larger one, say 80-100 Gigs?

Ron

Removing VMWare did nothing, repair found no problems and according to finder my Windows partition has 73gb of free space.

To me it looks like the hangup is in the boot loader before it even starts to load windows on my machine, it's as if it's waiting for some kind of input (F8 for advanced windows options?).

Might just have to nuke the partition and go back to XP or Vista I guess 😟

I have exactly the same problem with the new white MacBook. I made a 150 GB partition in bootcamp, made a fresh Win7 install without any problems, installed the drivers from the OSX DVD and everything worked perfectly (except that i had to manually select wifi drivers). I have exactly the same problem. After running the BIOS there's a cursor blinking in the top right corner in an otherwise completely black screen for a really long time. After that windows seems to boot at a normal speed. I even had this problem before installing any additional software.

@cassiano: did the system restore from the win7 install DVD help you?

I've got the same problem with Boot Camp and Windows 7 Pro on my MacBook Pro 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo. I noticed it after I deleted several temporary files with two uninstaller utilities. When Windows 7 loads, my cursor stalls for about 30 seconds. I can't confirm if it was happening before I deleted the temporary files. If it was happening, I didn't notice it. So, yes, the start-up isn't ssslllloooowww, say, three minutes or more, but it is lagging. I tried using bootrec.exe to rewrite the partition map, but it didn't work. I don't know what else to do. I've stayed up all night trying to troubleshoot it. If anyone has any more recommendations, please do consult us!

I have the same problem and last weekend Googled it and found others had the exact same symptoms. In fact one guy actually posted the fact that it took 2.5 minutes to see the Windows startup splash screen. After reading his info I timed it and lo and behold for me it was 2.5 minutes as well. Not just on one machine but my mac mini and a friends MacBook Air. During the long wait you see a black screen with a blinking white cursor in the upper left corner...this is what goes on for 2.5 minutes. Then the Windows 7 startup screen appears and everything proceeds normally from that point on.

I don't have any external USB devices attached and the Windows 7 installation is a real minimal install...basically just the OS and updated video drivers and that's it. Also, as others have touched on here, the symptoms don't go away when you set the Windows partition to be the default boot partition.

Same problem here as well on 7 new iMacs.

Have you tried this?

http://viperfx07.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-fixing-slow-booting-in-windows.ht ml

Works on my macbook like charm. Once ur problem fixed, u need to activate the Windows again. If the problem appears again after activating with your serial key, try to activate with the program.

Good luck

Jon Rossen wrote:
I have the same problem and last weekend Googled it and found others had the exact same symptoms. In fact one guy actually posted the fact that it took 2.5 minutes to see the Windows startup splash screen. After reading his info I timed it and lo and behold for me it was 2.5 minutes as well. Not just on one machine but my mac mini and a friends MacBook Air. During the long wait you see a black screen with a blinking white cursor in the upper left corner...this is what goes on for 2.5 minutes. Then the Windows 7 startup screen appears and everything proceeds normally from that point on.

I don't have any external USB devices attached and the Windows 7 installation is a real minimal install...basically just the OS and updated video drivers and that's it. Also, as others have touched on here, the symptoms don't go away when you set the Windows partition to be the default boot partition.

Indeed... I also have the same problem, with my iMac 24" (early 2009) with 3.06 MHz and 4GB of RAM. 2.5-minutes before I get the black "Starting Windows" screen.

I'm hoping for a fix, otherwise I do something else for 3-minutes while the iMac displays a black screen (with no cursor/line in the top right).

I am experiencing the EXACT same problem.
No problems during installation, no problems booting into Leopard.
My windows 7 partition is 38GB.

I have the same problem on iMac 27" - Win 7 64 -
My MacBook Pro 15" (2007) startup Win 7 very very quickly. 🙂 - Win 7 32 -

I found the solution! Se link below.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22969889-OS-X-Bootcamp-Windows-7-Ultra-Slow-Boo t~start=20

By the way, my license is legal so, this applies to legal copies as well.

Message was edited by: Arai75

Thank you Arai75!!

My license is 100% legal too and now work fine!!!

🙂