[Neumie]

Hey all

Recently my laptop (an advent 7039) has started to take an age to boot. I use grub. when i start i put in my bios password and GRUB2 pops on the screen (all normal so far). Then it stays there for about 30secs. It eventually goes to the list of OSs available. If i choose windows then "Chainloader" pops up along with other stuff (again all normal). Then it stays there for another minute before going to windows. then it starts to use the restore process to bring it out of hibernation. Once in windows everything seems fine. I have yet to test it on Linux to see if the same problem happens.
A similar problem popped up when i used LILO but i solved it by switching to GRUB. I also did a scan disk and it found a few bad sectors. and when they were found everything seemed to run normally. Is my hard drive on the way out or is this a bootloader problem?
All advice welcome.
Thank you.