Thanks Steve,
You focus on mymain quibble of conversion to SSD.
I know that windows 'likes toboot' from C:\windows (using boot.ini,
ntldr, and ?).
Yes, that is as far as I know ATM. So, I am stuck with OP's ideas to learn
"truly" what is going on. NO! I do not expect M$ to help; so I continue
with
whatever I can gleen from this LIST. Let's just say I am still confused
also.
Yes, I keep reading about 'imaging' stuff/partitions. I donot have a
storage of dot-img files.
I just do not get it...............yet!
sorry.
Duncan
On 05/17/2013 20:47, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
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