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Windows 8 boot time

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phillyman36

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Ok so i tried windows 8 as a dual boot on my z77 mobo. Windows 8 boot time seemed like it was 5 to 8 seconds. I brought a z87 mobo and did a clean install and now my boot times are 23 seconds.

Things ive done
Used Samsung os performance optimization
Tried the fast boot option in windows 8
Disabled non critical start up programs

How long is every ones boot time?
 
Both are enabled. I loaded the default and then
Disabled hardware not being used ie non intel sata ports and realtek lan
only thing i changed was my memory(made sure it ran at 1600 not 1333
takes about 25 to 30 seconds to get to the desktop once i see the windows logo

This is a new clean install
secured erased the drives and followed this method

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyxD-ifsGo
 
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On my Z87 (i5 4670K) system with all BIOS settings at default I get the following boot times running with a Samsung 830:

Power off to Windows 8 login: ~18 seconds
Warm restart to Windows 8 login: ~7 seconds

If you want me to look at any specific UEFI/BIOS settings let me know. I am running a Gigabyte board but probably have most of the same basic settings.
 
I cant figure if its a bios or a windows issue. When power it on it doesn't take long for the option for me to hit the del button to go into the bios. Once i see the windows logo those little dots (Windows equivalent of hour glass) turn for almost 30 second before i get to desktop.
 
By following that Youtube video you've installed Windows 8 with a MBR which automatically disabled the Windows 8 UEFI features that would allow it to take advantage of your Z87 mobo's UEFI hardware. I'd suggest that you start over and reinstall Windows 8 in UEFI mode in order to achieve the very fast boot times it's capable of.

How to Setup Windows 8 with UEFI BIOS in UEFI Mode

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no just while you are at the partition screen of windows 8, press SHIFT + F10

in the dos command prompt, type DISK PART

then SELECT DISK 0 if your HDD or SSD is the first disk

then type : clean then hit enter

then type convert gpt then hit enter

now continue to partition again
 
If you've already used Samsung Magician to create a bootable secure erase USB stick or CD, it only takes about five minutes and then you'll know you won't have any surprises later. Leave the SSD initialized but unallocated when do the UEFI installation. The Windows installer will create the GPT and format automatically, when you click to begin the installation. Just be sure that when you go to boot the USB flash drive, you first open the boot menu and manually select UEFI USB flash drive to boot from. If you don't, you'll be installing in MBR again.

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Ok first off thanks for the help. its really appreaciated.

as far as steps
1) Ive already made a bootable flash drive(verified it does have the efi folder
2) go into bios and enable CSM
3) set boot Device control to UEFI and legacy and boot from pci ext set to EUFI first
4) Set secure boot to windows EUFI mode
5)Boot to thumb drive make sure to select EUFI prefix on the thumb drive
6) make sure to disk part and make the drive a gpt

Have i got that about right? Also once installed should all my drives be gpt instead of mbr?
 
phillyman36 said:
Ok first off thanks for the help. its really appreaciated.

as far as steps
1) Ive already made a bootable flash drive(verified it does have the efi folder
2) go into bios and enable CSM
3) set boot Device control to UEFI and legacy and boot from pci ext set to EUFI first
4) Set secure boot to windows EUFI mode
5)Boot to thumb drive make sure to select EUFI prefix on the thumb drive
6) make sure to disk part and make the drive a gpt

Have i got that about right? Also once installed should all my drives be gpt instead of mbr?
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no CMS must be disabled and Fast boot must be enabled

if you enable CMS you lose the option of Fast Boot destroying the whole point

you need to enable CMS for installing older OS like Windows 7 and to boot off a boot DVD such as Macrium Reflect Rescue Disc or Acronis True Image but not for Windows 8 itself
 
phillyman36 said:
according to the guide CSM has to be enabled before installation.

http://codechief.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/how-to-setup-windows-8-in-uefi-bios-in-uefi-mode/


When i disabled the CSM all the boot from option were gone
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that is because when you disable CMS, you are actually also enabling UEFI so it handles the boot which is part of why Windows 8 boots much faster

if you want to boot from another device there is a button on the keyboard that gives you the boot options, on my ASUS laptop it is the ESC key
 
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When i went to do it i got an error saying something to the effect of vga card not supported by uefi bios

card is a evga 460

what did i do wrong
 
if your laptop came with Windows 8 initially, then your best bet would be to restore setup defaults in the BIOS and then take a look how were things done? then leave it at that
 
its a desktop i built. I may just let it go as is. I know its my knowledge here thats the problem but i didn't have this issue when when i took Windows 8 for a test run
 
You guys are AWESOME lol
Took a couple of tries but i got it to work. I am now booting to the desktop fast. Thanks everyone for all your help
 
phillyman36 said:
I last question should the rest of my storage drives be formatted to gpt as well?
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excellent bro! but you didn't advice us which part of our advice worked

secondly, only your main HDD or SSD should be partitioned as GPT to make use of faster boot.

The remaning HDDs/SSds should be in MBR format

the only reason why you might want to format an SSD/HDD in GPT other than the boot speed benefits is if you have a partition that is larger than 2 TB then GPT is needed to read those large partitions, otherwise don't bother its exactly the same for normal data
 
I wound up setting everything up just like the guide (one Bubbaleone posted) (turned on CSM) and set the settings like in the shots.

I think my mistake was when i disabled CSM i didn't reboot first for the setting to take effect then boot from the thumb drive.
Once i got to the install screen i did the select disk, cean and format the drive to be gpt.

Fast Boot and HW Fast Boot are both enabled in the bios as well.

So basically changed the settings and rebooted first so the changes were in effect
made sure to format the drive to gpt like instructed
 
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