Attached Link: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=71021&dlc=&docname=c00239036#N633

1. Use MSConfig or whatever your OS has or one of the freeware startup utilities and see what's running on boot up. There may be some disk checking thing they've included that you can disable. 2. Don't know if this is relevant but perhhaps: "Removing the System Recovery Partition" from HP's site.

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