[H] The SSD and how Windows can make your life miserable

[Steve Tomporowski]

Last weekend I cloned my main drive over to an SSD and then booted. Some 
things looked faster, but I wasn't blown away by the speed.  I have 
found out why.  It began on Patch Tuesday.  4 of 6 patches failed.  
Windows update threw some errors, but as I had a design review coming up 
at work, I was too buys obsessing about that to work on it.  Today, a 
day off!  I decided to look into the errors. Ran update again, same 
problems.  Searching on the errors, it seemed to indicate that Update 
has a problem when you move stuff from C: somewhere else, like when you 
install an SSD.  The only thing I really fudged with there is that I 
moved the Temp and Tmp folders. I moved them back, same problem.  I 
wondered if I didn't do something else and forgot about it.  Back to 
System and Advanced Settings.  This time I looked a the lower half of 
the window.  Half of my windows variables were pointing to my old boot 
drive which is now E: !  When I booted to the SSD the first time, I kept 
the old boot drive in the system, just changed the boot order in the 
BIOS. Wrong!  Windows apparently got confused and I ended up with a 
mishmash.  My %systemroot% was now E instead of C!

Just a word of caution.  Going to clone the drive again (it wouldn't 
boot properly on it's own) and this time remove the old drive. Well, 
that's how ya learn....

Steve