Solved Relocating OS and Data to a New Boot-SSD

And I shouldn't install anything other than the OS to my C: partition?

So, potentially silly question: Is my GPU drivers considered a system driver, or is that something that should go on the other half of the partition?

In this case it would be whatever drivers and GeForce Experience.

The current topology is coming together quite nicely, it really is just plug and play for the most part.

Just have to transfer stuff over and then wipe my Old SSD.

Should I be concerned about the programs that don't give me a custom installation option? Firefox installed straight to my OS drive, and whether that was my fault for missing a "custom installation" button or just bad design, I haven't been able to uninstall and change it.

Here's what it looks like for me:

OS C:
Data D:
Old SSD E:
Storage F:

I'm seeing less and less options here, going 0 for 2 on the data partition installation (haha).

I might just make it all one partition, not really worth all this trouble for me.

Everyone's is just a little different!

Once I figure out why Macrium wont browse this backup image, we'll be in business.

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.

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:

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

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:


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,

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,