Steve,
Thanks for the view of your conversion/installation. You have
demonstrated my biggest fear of
moving forward until I create a roadmap of "How to..." with what to use,
why use it, what to expect.
It has been 4 years since I have built a PC from scratch. I recall in
the good-ole-days, we all used
a program post Format to set a Primary, Active partition. All other
partitions were set to Extended NTFS.
Sadly, I have forgotten the name of this program and don't even know if
I still have it archived.
Now I just use the Windows install media to create (I believe?) the
'new' initial Primary and Active
partition and then use the Disk Manager in the Administrative tools post
install to add/shape the remaining
partitions.
It does seem to me that you could possibly edit your boot.ini file to
point Windows back to whichever drive you choose to
boot from. I have done this in the dim past with some success.
From your decription, Your old EM drive is/was your %SystemRoot%; and,
it contained partitions c:\ and d:\. And,
I read that your new SSD is now e:\. Am I correct?
Otherwise, I am very confused!
Duncan
On 05/18/2013 07:03, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Understood that a fresh install will align everything for the fastest
performance. However, Windows here just made sure that it loaded
everything from the old drive. For some reason, it never bothered
trying to load Windows from the SSD.
On 5/17/2013 9:06 PM, Dave Gibney wrote:
My laptop drive was giving me signs of eminent failure. I has a local
guy
install a SAMSUG SSD and clone to it. It worked, but I wasn't happy
with all
the results.
The next weekend, I did a fresh install Win-7 Ultimate, Office 2010,
etc.
Cycling through all the updates and getting the drivers up to date
took a
while, but no real problems.
It is much faster on boot and the quiet is scary :)
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Subject: [H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable
Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some
things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed. I have
found
out why. It began on Patch Tuesday. 4 of 6 patches failed.
Windows update threw some errors, but as I had a design review coming
up at
work, I was too buys obsessing about that to work on it. Today, a
day off!
I decided to look into the errors. Ran update again, same problems.
Searching on the errors, it seemed to indicate that Update has a problem
when you move stuff from C: somewhere else, like when you install an
SSD.
The only thing I really fudged with there is that I moved the Temp
and Tmp
folders. I moved them back, same problem. I wondered if I didn't do
something else and forgot about it. Back to System and Advanced
Settings.
This time I looked a the lower half of the window. Half of my windows
variables were pointing to my old boot drive which is now E: ! When I
booted to the SSD the first time, I kept the old boot drive in the
system,
just changed the boot order in the BIOS. Wrong! Windows apparently got
confused and I ended up with a mishmash. My %systemroot% was now E
instead
of C!
Just a word of caution. Going to clone the drive again (it wouldn't
boot
properly on it's own) and this time remove the old drive. Well,
that's how
ya learn....
Steve
