SLow boot after drive cloning

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Derek Baker

I installed a pair of Samsung P120Ss to replace my WD800JBs. I used DI 2002
to clone my boot drive, and it booted fine.

The problem is that booting now takes much longer. The time from the start
of the OS boot to the appearance of the last tray icon, has increased from a
little over a minute to a minute and a half. The increase appears to be in
the black screen phase prior to the appearance of the screen with the
cycling bar. In other tests (real world as well as synthetic) the new drive
is faster than the old one.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Previously Derek Baker said:
I installed a pair of Samsung P120Ss to replace my WD800JBs. I used DI 2002
to clone my boot drive, and it booted fine.
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The problem is that booting now takes much longer. The time from the start
of the OS boot to the appearance of the last tray icon, has increased from a
little over a minute to a minute and a half. The increase appears to be in
the black screen phase prior to the appearance of the screen with the
cycling bar. In other tests (real world as well as synthetic) the new drive
is faster than the old one.
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What OS? Impossible to say anything without that info....

Arno
 
Derek said:
Sorry. :) Win XP Home.
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So have an extra sip of coffe in the 30 seconds. Or are you booting
many times a day?

The time wasted trying to fix it is probably more than the time
wasted ignoring it.
 
CJT said:
So have an extra sip of coffe in the 30 seconds. Or are you booting
many times a day?
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coffee? I drink tea :)
The time wasted trying to fix it is probably more than the time
wasted ignoring it.
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Probably. Though even at one boot a day, over three years: 365* 3 * .5
minutes = 9 hours wasted.
 
Derek Baker said:
coffee? I drink tea :)
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Probably. Though even at one boot a day, over three years: 365* 3 * .5 minutes
= 9 hours wasted.
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Only if you sit there twiddling your thumbs while it boots.

I dont personally turn systems off much and the ones I do,
I find that hibernate is significantly quicker to start than a boot.

So I havent bothered to check the boot time of various configs.
 
Derek Baker said:
Just run Bootvis's Optimize System option, boot time is now just below old
time.
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It would probably have happened anyway, XP does
optimise that stuff itself, takes a bit of time before it does it.
 
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