Duncan,
Did you read my email on how I fixed this? Sent to the list last
weekend. Things are going fine for a week now and I do have stuff that
is starting very fast. My system used to take a long time from password
prompt to usable desktop. There was a lot going on in the background
which I'm sure what it was, but right now, from password prompt to
usable desktop is about 10 seconds. I'm also not going to worry a whole
lot about writing to the SSD. I've changed where downloaded files go
and the defaults for documents, but if you do too much fiddling, then
Windows Update will have a fit.
Steve
On 5/25/2013 3:23 PM, DSinc wrote:
Thanks Steve,
You focus on mymain quibble of conversion to SSD.
I know that windows 'likes toboot' from C:\windows (using boot.ini,
ntldr, and ?).
Yes, that is as far as I know ATM. So, I am stuck with OP's ideas to
learn
"truly" what is going on. NO! I do not expect M$ to help; so I
continue with
whatever I can gleen from this LIST. Let's just say I am still
confused also.
Yes, I keep reading about 'imaging' stuff/partitions. I donot have a
storage of dot-img files.
I just do not get it...............yet!
sorry.
Duncan
On 05/17/2013 20:47, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
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
