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After eliminating all other possibilities, I tried to install a fresh copy of Windows 8 from an OEM iso file and it installed fine and the computer starts up in about 30 secs now. It turns out that the recovery partition installed on my laptops hard drive might have been corrupted so when I...

Downloading it now. How should I proceed?

Nothing in Device Manager has an exclamation mark next to it. I have updated all drivers for the devices. All no windows services have been disabled. Still having the same problem. I will try to restart in safe mode and report back. Thank you.

Here is what it says in the event viewer for my latest boot up: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance Date: 7/10/2014 10:31:50 AM Event ID: 100 Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring...

Thank you for your reply but after trying to resume from fast boot I get a BSOD and it says DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. Normal boot time for a machine like this should be around 45secs or so. I am wondering if there is a particular process which hangs on startup causing the 4 min delay. I tried...

Windows 8 64bit was taking forever to boot so I did a clean install but that didn't help. I am using an ASUS K56CA laptop. I have tried updating all the drivers I could find and windows too but it didn't help. When trying to put the computer to sleep I did get a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE...