To clarify what has gone before.
When I first built my system I had 1 x DVD/CD Drive, 1 X 650 Gig Western Digital Black SATA6Gb/s HDD, Sapphire 4850x2 Graphics, Delta 1010 Soundcard.
I disabled some of the on-board peripherals that I never need such as IDE Channels (I only use SATA), e-SATA, on-board Audio, Serial Port, Floppy Drives, etc.,
Boot time was approximately 55- 75 seconds. Once I installed my other hard-drives and, to be honest, some very large audio and video software the BOOT time has increased. To help alleviate this I have disabled a lot of the items that Windows 7 wants to access or run in the background, during the start-up that are unnecessary. If I hadn't done this I dread to think how long it would take to start.
The same system, running Linux Ubuntu, gets going in about 35 - 45 seconds.