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I had this same problem. It’s because the USN journal on the HDD has gotten corrupted, and when windows loads all the local disks it hangs when pulling the journal info off the HDD. To fix this…REMOVE the HDD. Boot from your boot disk and go to command prompt. Connect the HDD to the system using a USB SATA/IDE adapter. Even if the system doesn’t seem to see the drive eventually you’ll get a drive letter, then do a chkdsk drive: /R . This should fix it up…you’ll see what errors it finds.
Note: This doesn’t mean that the HDD is bad(especially if the system had a hard shutdown), but it may be an indicator that it is going. Test out the HDD with diagnostics so you don’t have ongoing issues.