How will my windows image work?
Alright, so here's a bit of a clustertruck of an issue. So, my desktop is an amalgamation of parts. This matters because my windows OS is on my C: drive (per usual), while I also have a D drive and A drive (It was E but I renamed it to A but its still known in the system as E).
My C drive is a (assumedly) 2013 1TB HDD. It grinds to a halt whenever windows has to update, and for whatever odd reason takes 20+ minutes to get past the welcome screen. I've made a windows image (of my C drive and some windows parts) on my A drive (2tb SSD) and I'm about to try to get my desktop to use it, but I don't know how a windows image like, really works.
Will the windows image just bring all that data to my C drive or will windows be installed on my A drive?
The windows image is also windows 10 while the system is on windows 11
Thanks in advance
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I think we need to start over here, so basically:

- you have a system with a 1tb HDD.
- you added an SSD, was E: but you changed to A:
- you used some program to either clone or image your C: to A:
- your system is still stuck on C: and want it to use A: ?
- whats this about windows 10 and 11 ??

I think we are going to need the ELI5 of what exactly you did here step-by-step...

usually you:

- add SSD so system would recognize and have drivers for said SSD
- clone your C: to the new SSD
- remove old HDD and boot using new SSD only in BIOS
- boot up and make sure all is well
- add old HDD back, ensure system does not boot from it in BIOS
- format HDD
Clone your current C: drive on the hdd to the 2tb ssd

Edit: I beg you to use 3rd party software to do this.
最后由 emoticorpse 编辑于; 8 小时以前
引用自 emoticorpse
Clone your current C: drive on the hdd to the 2tb ssd

Edit: I beg you to use 3rd party software to do this.
What software?
Also does cloning move the user and OS too? Id love that if it did
引用自 A Terraria Mage
引用自 emoticorpse
Clone your current C: drive on the hdd to the 2tb ssd

Edit: I beg you to use 3rd party software to do this.
What software?
Also does cloning move the user and OS too? Id love that if it did

Well, I haven't used cloning software in a long time so I'm not sure what's really good these days but someone else might be able to suggest something if you don't want to Google yourself for some freeware cloning programs. Besides, that's the tl;dr answer, seems like you do got more going on that I wasn't in the mood to address so check out Talby's post as well. I'd prep the 2tb SSD and empty it so that the main OS can be copied there.
引用自 emoticorpse
引用自 A Terraria Mage
What software?
Also does cloning move the user and OS too? Id love that if it did

Well, I haven't used cloning software in a long time so I'm not sure what's really good these days but someone else might be able to suggest something if you don't want to Google yourself for some freeware cloning programs. Besides, that's the tl;dr answer, seems like you do got more going on that I wasn't in the mood to address so check out Talby's post as well. I'd prep the 2tb SSD and empty it so that the main OS can be copied there.
I never saw what they said. Mb. Lemme read it


引用自 Talby
I think we need to start over here, so basically:

- you have a system with a 1tb HDD.
- you added an SSD, was E: but you changed to A:
- you used some program to either clone or image your C: to A:
- your system is still stuck on C: and want it to use A: ?
- whats this about windows 10 and 11 ??

I think we are going to need the ELI5 of what exactly you did here step-by-step...
I have 3 drives
A (2tb SSD, has only windows image on it. The image is from when the system was on windows 10)
C (1tb HDD, has windows OS and a majority of my files. Windows is currently windows 11)
D (1tb SSD, this just has a decent-ish chunk of my steam library on it for faster loading)
I used microsoft's tools to create a system image. No third party program, just windows.
I'd like to get all the contents from my rather old C drive onto my new and fast A drive.

引用自 Talby
Take your pick:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/five-free-and-reliable-cloning-tools/

A couple of guides that go step-by-step

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2210819/how-to-clone-a-hdd-to-an-ssd-for-free-on-windows.html
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/copy-your-windows-installation-to-an-ssd
alr, Ill try those out
Are one of those SSDs an M2/nvme drive and the other a SATA drive?

if so, I would make the nvme as the boot drive C: and the other SSD for games and the HDD for just backups / downloads - that's the "optimized" setup...
最后由 Talby 编辑于; 8 小时以前
引用自 Talby
Are one of those SSDs an M2/nvme drive and the other a SATA drive?

if so, I would make the nvme as the boot drive C: and the other SSD for games and the HDD for just backups / downloads - that's the "optimized" setup...
I believe so. My plan is to copy all of the HDD C drive onto the 2tb A drive SSD
I'll probably put like video files and stuff that isnt as important on the HDD in the future though
Cool the clone will handle that no problem, once it's done it will be the new C:

Another consideration - cloning will also bring over all the problems of windows if you have upgraded from 10 to 11 (as I did, and you probably took the image before you upgraded?)

I just did a fresh win11 install after the 25h2 failed and gave me problems & crashing, so consider a fresh install if you have any of the usual windows issues.

A bit of pain having to reinstall and move files but no crashing is a bonus 🏅
引用自 Talby
Cool the clone will handle that no problem, once it's done it will be the new C:

Another consideration - cloning will also bring over all the problems of windows if you have upgraded from 10 to 11 (as I did, and you probably took the image before you upgraded?)

I just did a fresh win11 install after the 25h2 failed and gave me problems & crashing, so consider a fresh install if you have any of the usual windows issues.

A bit of pain having to reinstall and move files but no crashing is a bonus 🏅
I did the windows image when my system was still windows 10. I tried to update it to 11 in an attempt to see if windows would be smart enough to try to install it on the A drive since getting the A drive allowed for my desktop to be win 11 upgradable or whatever
I can’t wait for thus to work it takes my desktop 30+ seconds to load a tab
I think you may vave virus

So o think you should do a fresh install of windows dont clone it

30 second tabbing isnt hdd issue. Like a 1 to 2 minute boot up from hdd is normal but 20 mins either hdd failed corrupted or you have so many startup programs lingering or old files or virus hiding that fresh start over will be huge difference
最后由 HypersleepyNaputunia 编辑于; 6 小时以前
I think you may vave virus

So o think you should do a fresh install of windows dont clone it

30 second tabbing isnt hdd issue. Like a 1 to 2 minute boot up from hdd is normal but 20 mins either hdd failed corrupted or you have so many startup programs lingering or old files or virus hiding that fresh start over will be huge difference
Let me make my boot drive and boot disc first then ill try
I dont think I have a virus since disk usage is always like, system :/
引用自 Talby
Are one of those SSDs an M2/nvme drive and the other a SATA drive?

if so, I would make the nvme as the boot drive C: and the other SSD for games and the HDD for just backups / downloads - that's the "optimized" setup...


but its not.....windows is extended 32bit and CAN NOT read or write faster then 1100MB a second.....the OS should never be on the fastest drive of the system.....windows can execute 64bit code at faster speeds but the OS itself is limited.....

best set up since no one uses them is 2 sata based SSD's in raid as it will put you are a real world 1100MB a second read and write speeds.....second best is a gen 3 M.2 on a lower port running on the chipset.....

FYI having windows on my gen 4 M.2 took its read and write speeds from 5000MB read and 4600 write down to 3000 read and 2600 write with it running windows in the back round......the OS is always making I/O request that will slow down any drive its own.....so games on the fastest drive and windows on its own drive is always the best way to go.....
Okay so for whatever reason Macrium or whatever just straight up wont work. Ill start the cloning process but then i come back to see the tab gone and no progress made
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