Relocating OS and Data to a New Boot-SSD

[Bruce]

can you not double click the .mrimg file that Macrium created, tick the partition you want to access and Macrium will mount that as a drive in File
Explorer.

[Pyro]

Yeah, that would have worked if the Macrium install I had wasn’t 3 fresh W10 installs old (oops!)

A fresh install of Macrium onto my storage drive seems to have fixed everything.

[Bruce]

woo-hoo.
good job.

reckon you are finished here now?

[Pyro]

If I might ask 2 questions before we conclude.

My OS feels a bit sluggish, granted it did on my old SSD after an OS refresh, should I be looking for a firmware update or something of the like? (In this case I think it would be installing Samsung Magician or whatever they’re pushing nowadays).

Things such as right clicking on the desktop, logging in the first time, and opening some applications can cause little hiccups and loading bars, this is not really what I expected when I upgraded to a M.2.

All my drivers are up to date regarding Windows, my video card, as well as my motherboard. I ran disk cleanup/defragment, that feels like it may have helped a bit, still debating if I want to install magician or not.

Secondly,

My motherboard (ASUS Z390-E Gaming) has 6 SATA ports + 2 NVMe slots.

I have SATA 1 & 2 used up with my SATA drives, and M.2_1 used up by my NVMe, could this cause some sort of bottleneck for the drives? I’m not sure if they would have to share the same data lane or something of the sort. (Page 1-2 has a nice diagram of this)

The manual says: “When the M.2_1(Socket 3) is operating in SATA mode, SATA port 2 (SATA6G_2) will be disabled.” on page 1-21.

I can’t tell if this is saying that Sata-2 will be disabled, or if one of the SATA ports will be disabled?

Here’s the manual for your own reference:

https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/ROG_STRIX_Z390-E_GAMING/E14841_ROG_STRIX_Z390-E_GAMING_UM_V2_WEB.pdf

Thanks for all you’ve done so far, I’m very happy to have a new system drive.

[Bruce]

just confirming, when you installed the new m.2 drive, you loaded Windows on to it manually yourself, not a Macrium image?

let’s try some housekeeping and see if that improves speed.
[ul]
[li]reboot modem/router/pc[/li][li]delete restore points[/li][li]turn off hibernation[/li][li]empty web browser cache[/li][li]delete system temp files[/li][li]disable unwanted scheduled tasks[/li][li]disable unnecessary startup services[/li][li]disable scheduled defragging[/li][li]trim any SSD’s[/li][li]turn off Timeline and Activity History, and all things Microsoft Telemetry based[/li][li]empty recycle bin[/li][li]delete log files and error reports[/li][li]remove old Windows Updates files[/li][li]cleanup software installer and distribution caches[/li][li]delete unwanted programs[/li][li]remove any browser extensions[/li][li]pause any online cloud storage synchronising (OneDrive, DropBox)[/li][/ul]
CCleaner or Glary Disk Cleaner or the inbuilt cleanmgr command can do most of those points.
ShutUp10 by O&O Software can stop a lot of telemetry items.
also get SSD Fresh, unlock code is XPGY-NF2 (no, that’s not a secret, it gets sent to you in an email if you have no internet connection)

then run these from an elevated command prompt;
[ul]
[li]chkdsk /f[/li][li]sfc /scannow[/li][li]dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth[/li][li]dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase[/li][/ul]
I would also disconnect all other drives except the new m.2 and see if that effects things.

[Pyro]

Bruce,

I did a complete manual install from a fresh - unformatted drive.

As for the old SATA, it received a format along with chkdsk deleting the system partitions.

The HDD was not touched.

I will attempt some of these fixes, a quick sfc /scannow showed there were some corrupt files, leave it to Microsoft to corrupt a brand new install.

I’ll update accordingly as I try some of these things.

I doubt it would be an incorrectly installed drive, my only concern was the lack of a setting screw, the only ones were the two that held the heatsink down?

This picture will hopefully show what I am trying to ask:
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There was a thermal pad on the back, a sticky little pad, it got a bit stretched during installation, but it was quite inconvenient to install the way it’s set up (pushing the drive flat while installing the screw and keeping the pad straight).

[Bruce]

@Pyro - where are we with this?

[Pyro]

Bruce,

A bit of slowness, still, but things seem better possibly.

I don’t think this thread needs to continue, my concerns of installing a new drive were addressed and everything seems to be working close enough to how it should.

Thank you for your assistance,

[Bruce]

always glad to help.