Encrypted SSD System Drive (C Drive) very slow to boot, D Drive suddenly missing.
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These problems all occurred at the same time, when I booted up Thursday night. POST seems to take forever. I cannot seem to get into the BIOS to check settings. My system drive (C drive) is encrypted, once the password is accepted (this seems to take the usual amout of time) the computer normally takes about 20 seconds to boot. I just timed the boot process after the PW is accepted, it's currectly taking 2 minutes 30 seconds to boot. Also, my D Drive, an unencrypted drive, is completely mising from Explorer and Windows Disk Management. Since it disappreared at the same time as the system drive issue, I can't believe that it's a coincidence.
FWIW, Defraggler shows C Drive has about 80% free space, 5% fragmentation. and disk health is "Good". Chkdsk reports "Windows has checked the file system and found no problems."
Running Windows 7 Professional
An old installation of Windows 7 Home is on the D Drive
Computer is a Dell Insprion 560 with many upgrades (such as the SSD), none of which are recent (most recent was last summer).
VeraCrypt is 1.21 / 64 bit.
Thank you very much
Last edit: PinkBL 2020-08-02
Try physically disconnecting the D drive to prevent its possible failure (or retries) from extending the POST and Windows boot. That can be a hassle on a laptop, so you might first check the Windows Event Viewer system log around your last boot time to see what problems are flagged for the D drive.
I'm not finding any drive related errors in the event viewer except a single error showing that Drive D didn't load. No repeated attempts to load it. The next entry is less than a second later.
Thank you for trying.
It also helps to get off your butt and check the connections. Everything is working now. :)