Steve,
Yes, I did read your share of 05/18. I do read your 8 steps. But, your
entire share is on a level
that I do not share. So, I still read it to decode (as best I can) it
for my future tasks.
Yes, I can mechanically install an SSD in my 'test' machine. Yes, I can
electrically connect
the SSD to my PSU. Beyond this I am still a large bit lost.
Sorry. Yes, still using WinXPpro ATM.
Duncan
On 05/25/2013 15:38, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
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
