The wife has complained about this on and off and I finally got a chance to see it in action.
Machine is a HP EliteBook 8570p with a 256gb toshiba ssd and 12gb ram. (This is an upgrade from a lenovo t420 and windows WAS NOT cleanly installed on the machine. I just moved the ssd from the old machine to the new one.)
The machine boots so slowly the initial "circling dots" animation is broken.
I finally got it to give me the task manager and the performance tab says the cpu is stuck at 0.1 ghz.
I could not do much else so I just watched it plod through the boot up and then suddenly the cpu was reported as running at 2.7ghz and right after that system performance was normal.
I did a complete shutdown and rebooted and it booted in 30 seconds flat just like normal and the starting animation with the circling dots was fluid as it normally is.
This seems to happen most often after a ungraceful shutdown such as sudden power failure.
Any idea's on what to change to get it to boot normally every time?
All necessary drivers are installed and there are no unknown devices in the device manager.
I also updated the bios before swapping hard drives.