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So I just installed a new SSD to replace my old one. I cloned the old one to the new one and made the new drive my boot drive.  The issue is that  it takes FOREVER to boot. im talking like sub 5400 RPM hdd slow! I also noticed that I have some random drive in my set of drives called system reserved thats 100mb.  I disconnected all my other drives except the boot one and it went away  and I was able to boot just fine. how do I remove this virtual drive? 

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Has any of your other drives had a Windows install? If so, you could try formatting them. To me it looks like the boot partition that is normally hidden, so it could be an old boot partition on one of the other drives (separate from the one on your regular boot drive).

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Has any of your other drives had a Windows install? If so, you could try formatting them. To me it looks like the boot partition that is normally hidden, so it could be an old boot partition on one of the other drives (separate from the one on your regular boot drive).

It was indeed a volume in the old SSD. I reformatted and merged the 2 bits of the old ssd in disk management. however im still taking VERY long to boot, looks like that made no difference 

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Has any of your other drives had a Windows install? If so, you could try formatting them. To me it looks like the boot partition that is normally hidden, so it could be an old boot partition on one of the other drives (separate from the one on your regular boot drive).

 

 

It was indeed a volume in the old SSD. I reformatted and merged the 2 bits of the old ssd in disk management. however im still taking VERY long to boot, looks like that made no difference 

 

whoaa there stop!... don't reformat it, that partition holds the files that tells your UEFI/BIOS where to fetch windows. A simple way to hide it is to open the built in windows partition manager. Right click the system reserved partition from the drive and select "change drive letter and paths..." from that click the remove button then ok.

 

This will hide it from my computer but still function as intended :)

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whoaa there stop!... don't reformat it, that partition holds the files that tells your UEFI/BIOS where to fetch windows. A simple way to hide it is to open the built in windows partition manager. Right click the system reserved partition from the drive and select "change drive letter and paths..." from that click the remove button then ok.

 

This will hide it from my computer but still function as intended :)

it was part of the old drive. I think when windows sensed a new c drive it "unhid" the one that was no longer part of the C drive. dont worry I can still boot, I have a new 100mb drive as part of my new C drive :)

still booting slow as molasses though 

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That is the old system reserve from your previous install, I had this as well when I got my SSD. If you are booting slowly then I recommend you just re-install your OS. There isn't much you can fiddle around with to make it boot at normal speeds without redoing the OS. 

 

If you use windows disc manager you can see a second system reserved on your boot drive. Try it, seriously, before you do anything.

 

whoaa there stop!... don't reformat it, that partition holds the files that tells your UEFI/BIOS where to fetch windows. A simple way to hide it is to open the built in windows partition manager. Right click the system reserved partition from the drive and select "change drive letter and paths..." from that click the remove button then ok.

 

This will hide it from my computer but still function as intended :)

There should be no need to worry about that, as you can see the partition has been give the letter D, The actual system reserved shouldn't have a letter at all. 

I had the same thing when I installed my SSD, I was able to format and merge that partition just fine.

 

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That is the old system reserve from your previous install, I had this as well when I got my SSD. If you are booting slowly then I recommend you just re-install your OS. There isn't much you can fiddle around with to make it boot at normal speeds without redoing the OS. 

 

If you use windows disc manager you can see a second system reserved on your boot drive. Try it, seriously, before you do anything.

 

There should be no need to worry about that, as you can see the partition has been give the letter D, The actual system reserved shouldn't have a letter at all. 

I had the same thing when I installed my SSD, I was able to format and merge that partition just fine.

did your boot time slow like mine?

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did your boot time slow like mine?

No, as I did a fresh install onto the SSD, I didn't clone anything.

 

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if your boot time is slow, are you booting as IDE or AHCI, the later would massively increase boot speed and read / write time but you need it install the drivers for it before you reboot or windows wont boot at all! 

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if your boot time is slow, are you booting as IDE or AHCI, the later would massively increase boot speed and read / write time but you need it install the drivers for it before you reboot or windows wont boot at all! 

hmm im not sure. What is the difference between IDE and AHCI? I was thinking about a hackintosh over the summer and I had to make it boot to AHCI I believe. 

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IDE is for legacy support and tends to be slower AHCI is Advanced Host Controler Interface and is alot faster, I tried to find a Linustechtips video about it, as he would prolly explain it better and I am tired lol! 

 

i think i have one but just watching it and ill post it later if i do. 

 

best i could find, although i've never edited the Registry for this before. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8gW_ycdnas

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Any mobo built in the last 5 years is AHCI by default. Also it's entirely possible that in cloning the old SSD that some data was corrupted/didn't copy properly. How exactly did you clone it? And this is why we always recommend doing a clean install when upgrading major components, specifically the boot drive. My fix for you is to copy over personal file (docs, downloads, music, pictures, save games (usually in C:/users/$USERNAME$/Documents/My Games ) And don't copy program files (unless its your origin or steam games library folder because the registry wont get updated with the programs installed. 

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 I also noticed that I have some random drive in my set of drives called system reserved thats 100mb.  I disconnected all my other drives except the boot one and it went away  and I was able to boot just fine. how do I remove this virtual drive? 

System Reserved is a partition automatically created by Windows during installation, however sometimes Windows forgets to hide it after install and assigns a drive letter to it. 

 

Right click Computer in the start menu, click Manage, on the left hand side click Disk Management. Right click System Reserved and click Change drive letters and paths, then click Remove. As much as it may warn you just proceed, it won't harm anything, it was meant to be hidden in the first place.

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hmm im not sure. What is the difference between IDE and AHCI? I was thinking about a hackintosh over the summer and I had to make it boot to AHCI I believe. 

Changing from IDE to AHCI with an OS already installed can cause issues. Cloning generally isn't recommended, always better to do a full reinstall

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