This may be a new kind of problem for most...
Long story, but I needed to clone an existing (perfectly functioning) SSD to a larger HDD. (yeah, I know, it usually goes the other way) I used Clonezilla and everything appeared to go very smoothly. I put the HDD back into my laptop in the same physical location where the SSD had been. I changed nothing else on the laptop.
First thing I noticed was that the POST took a very long time (30+ seconds compared to 5 seconds before the swap). I looked at the BIOS config and everything looked fine. After starting the boot, everything took quite a bit longer, but otherwise worked as it did with the SSD in the system. This particular drive has Windows 7 installed which I can select from a dual-boot Win8/Win7 setup. When I selected the Windows 7 drive everything appeared normal during the boot process except that it took 10-12 minutes to get to the desktop. With the SSD it took about 20 seconds. Once finished booting into Win7 everything is very s-l-o-w.
Could this possibly be due to the fact that the SSD's block structure was duplicated onto a conventional spinning drive? If so, is there a way to remedy the problem, maybe by cloning again with some kind of different settings? (I used all of the default Clonezilla options) Since I had the two drives in the system configured for dual booting, I told Clonezilla to also clone the boot sector so as not to wack the dual boot setup using the HDD. Could that be a problem?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Long story, but I needed to clone an existing (perfectly functioning) SSD to a larger HDD. (yeah, I know, it usually goes the other way) I used Clonezilla and everything appeared to go very smoothly. I put the HDD back into my laptop in the same physical location where the SSD had been. I changed nothing else on the laptop.
First thing I noticed was that the POST took a very long time (30+ seconds compared to 5 seconds before the swap). I looked at the BIOS config and everything looked fine. After starting the boot, everything took quite a bit longer, but otherwise worked as it did with the SSD in the system. This particular drive has Windows 7 installed which I can select from a dual-boot Win8/Win7 setup. When I selected the Windows 7 drive everything appeared normal during the boot process except that it took 10-12 minutes to get to the desktop. With the SSD it took about 20 seconds. Once finished booting into Win7 everything is very s-l-o-w.
Could this possibly be due to the fact that the SSD's block structure was duplicated onto a conventional spinning drive? If so, is there a way to remedy the problem, maybe by cloning again with some kind of different settings? (I used all of the default Clonezilla options) Since I had the two drives in the system configured for dual booting, I told Clonezilla to also clone the boot sector so as not to wack the dual boot setup using the HDD. Could that be a problem?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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