This thread was opened way over a year ago, so I'd hope that by now the OP's problem is solved.
But for those reading this thread for the first time, I'd like to mention a tweak that I've been using since the XP days, to speed up the boot time.
It does NOT involve changing any hardware, like the HD, or buying or downloading any software. All that's needed is already built into Windows, (every version from XP to 10)
Here's the tweak:
Shorten the Boot Time in XP, Vista & Windows 7 & 8, 8.1 & Windows 10
Go to the start button, choose run, then type msconfig and press Ok.
On the system configuration window, choose the "Boot.INI" tab.
Check “No Gui Boot”, then lower the timeout to a more manageable time.
I choose 3 seconds in stead of 30. (windows won’t accept a lower number than 3)
Next choose advanced options.
This is where you can choose how many processors you have.
Most modern PC's are duo core (2 processors) with some quad core (4 processors, and there are even some with 8 Cores or more, )
then choose OK. The Windows default is only 1 core.
Now choose apply and OK, reboot and you should see a marked decrease in boot time, and an Increase in Run-Time efficiency.
There are several tweaks, that increase performance in Windows 8.1, which I still run as my everyday OS, but also in Windows 10,
that also worked in Windows XP/SP3. For whatever reason, MS built their latest OS's on top of older OS cores, that just worked.
The registry in Windows 10 is nearly identical to the registry in XP, in so many ways. So tweaks I made to the XP registry, still work in Win-10.
With PC's today, containing so much more RAM, than PC's of just ten years ago, there is one tweak that really works great today.
In the early days of Windows, when many new computers were coming out of the factory, they were being sold with as little as 256 megs of ram. And, the Windows Kernel was left on the hard drive, where it had to be found and read, every time the OS needed to access it.
Especially, with the old and slow IDE drives, that really slowed down the speed of Windows.
But since then, with all the ram we're putting in PC's today, that same Kernel can be uploaded into RAM on bootup, so the speed and efficiency is greatly increased. I used that tweak in XP, when I could get 2GB of ram installed, and I've been using it in every OS since then, including Win-10.
Here's the Registry Tweak, to load the Windows Kernel into RAM on bootup:
Load the Kernel into RAM on boot, for faster running.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"="1"
"LargeSystemCache"="1"
It's not really hard, to increase the performance of any version of Windows, but it does take a little effort.
The things I've mentioned here, I do on every OS that I have to set up, and as a working Computer Tech, I do get to set up quite a few new PC's or at least OS installs.
My personal PC, that I built last June, boots up in just a few seconds and shuts down in 5 sec's or less.
Cheers Mates!
TechnoMage