Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 takes hours to boot, and is very slow.
After mounting an external USB drive, and copying the contents of one drive onto the USB external, the system had some error, and took more than a day to cycle through reboots before it came up. Then after a shutdown, the reboot would take about 6 hours.
C:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM is only 8,448kb and SOFTWARE is only 31,232kb, so I assume I do not have the orphaned device problem.
Another strangeness is that no updates have been installed. Windows Update reports a check for updates, and that no updates are available, which I find unlikely. Last install of updates is "never". I don't seem to be able to locate and install updates for this server software.
The disk access light is on continuously.
The server is a single processor Zeon (3.4ghz), 64bit, 2gb of memory, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, service pack 1, 64bit. I am using Microsoft software RAID, set up in disk manager, mirroring the only volume.
Is this a bug in the OS? If so, is there a fix? What are my repair options?
Thanks much for your assistance,
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