I am also suffering with some close to this problem and checked at the Windows Logs in event viewer for "System" and got that it consumes near about 9 minutes between the starting process of OS . I also get this from thw log :
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The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
There were 4 entries that are same and points "Error" level and this displays to be stalling the OS start-up for about 8 minutes or so. I know that iaStor is from the Intel Matrix Manager or whatever it's known (to do with Hard Drives), so I uninstalled this, restarted, and Windows 7 consumes about 10 to 15 seconds to start up so the problem is now fixed.
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