I added Vista Home Premium Lite as a dual boot to my XP Pro system a couple of weeks ago, and it takes absolutely ages to boot. Usually 10 minutes, sometimes more. My XP can boot in less than 30 seconds though...

When I started it in safe mode, it was stuck on crcdriver.sys. Does this mean there's a problem with the OS, or with a drive? I'm not sure if I should pull out each drive on the PC one at a time to see what's causing it, or what I should do...Has anybody had experiences with this before?

(I searched the interwebs before posting this, but I didn't find anything helpful...)

Cheers

I had the same problem with my 2nd PC Athlon 64 3500+ (2,2GHz CPU)
XP needs about 54 seconds and Vista took 11 Minutes.

Some say it's caused by the "Superfetch" feature from Vista but I bet it's a hidden feature in Vista to convince people to buy new hardware

Maybe some fine tuning can help you:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm

Strange, Vista home premium here, boot is very fast 20-30 seconds probably, shut down is incredible @ about 6-8 seconds(this started when I installed SP1). Definitely not normal.

Vista Home Premium 64 here. No problems - very quick to boot and close.

I have the full Vista Home Premium on my laptop, no problems. But it's just the PC, with vLite, that's causing problems. I think it's getting better though, it's down to 9 minutes

vista ultimate 32 bit boot up time 15-20 seconds and shutdown in like 8 seconds. lots of things disabled in windows only using 520mb of my 2gb idling in windows instead of 800 to 900mb. runs a lot better now.

I have windows vista home premium and it takes about 2-4 minutes to start. before yesterday it was taking about 3 minutes to shutdown then the blue screen error apeared :S.

There's nothing wrong with my Vista AFAIK. It runs absolutely fine once it's up, and shuts down ~20 seconds. But it hangs on the "crcdisk.sys" driver on startup for 10 minutes. I've tried using a driver from my laptop's Vista, but it's the same thing. I don't think there's any need to pull out each drive (I have 6 :shy individually and try and boot, as I still won't be able to do anything with the driver. But I thought maybe there's some registry setting or something that can be changed to bypass a problem or whatever

I did some searching myself and this is the only thing that might be useful to you. There are so many unanswered threads on many forums with this topic it surprises me.

http://forums.microsoft.com/Te ... stID=510682&SiteID=17

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

I have the full Vista Home Premium on my laptop, no problems. But it's just the PC, with vLite, that's causing problems. I think it's getting better though, it's down to 9 minutes

I would say that's your problem. Probably vLited it too much, and it's missing some crucial stuff.

Quote from Dennisjr13 :

I did some searching myself and this is the only thing that might be useful to you. There are so many unanswered threads on many forums with this topic it surprises me.

http://forums.microsoft.com/Te ... stID=510682&SiteID=17

Thanks, trying that now

Quote from arco :

I would say that's your problem. Probably vLited it too much, and it's missing some crucial stuff.

It could be, so a repair installation might fix it hopefully

Also hit F8 and disable reboot on STOP errors and see if it's a STOP error or just a hardware reset.

Are you running SLI also? Maybe latest bios revision.

I'd like someone to collaborate on my advice because I have very little experience, and I'm kinda jumping around with all these idea's in my head because of that particular error. But usually that error will prevent a boot no?. I recall something like this and reading about it recently, but the system woudnl't boot, and had something to do with the amount of ram in the machine when windows was installed, then later adding or removing some. Eh, hope this might help a little, but I'm afraid I may be way off.

Yes, I've read threads with people who had the boot freeze on this driver, and it wouldn't continue. But mine does, eventually. I also read about the RAM issue, but I've tried it with all combinations I have (64MB, 128MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 3GB) (64MB was awesome :razz, and it did the same thing...

I don't think it's a reboot problem, as it's still on the Vista loading screen with the bar moving all the time. I'm on the latest bios too, A08. Yes, it is a Dell lol...Thanks for the help anyway...

I've made things worse by trying to fix it though, it now can't load my profile, and puts me into a temporary account. The problem with that is, I can't change settings to re-enable my account, as it resets everything when I log off :eek: Safe mode doesn't use administrator rights either, so I'm looking at a reinstall

Why can't you get into your profile? I hope not just a forgotten passord. Note to all. "Always create a password reset disk"

No, it was when I was expanding the V: partition (I dual boot XP + Vista) to install SP1 to try and fix the problem, it changed the letter to F:...So I renamed it to V:, and tried to boot into Vista, and it gave me OS not found...so I had to reboot XP, and change the disk and partition back to V:, in the boot manager yokey, bcdedit. Booting into Vista again, it loaded a temporary profile. My Computer shows Vista as being partition E:, even though E: is actually a DVD drive...

In XP, I can go to the Vista drive at V:, and can find my old profile. The trouble with the temporary profile is though, that no matter what I do, it gets reset when I log off

But on the user select screen, it looks like I'm logging into my old account. It has my username (I'm the only user on it, and it's using the super-admin account), and I have to use my password to login...

It's really weird...

Meh. I've decided to just get rid of Vista, it didn't have much over XP apart from looking a bit better...So now I just have one uber fast XP OS