I just transplanted my old HDD into my new computer.
I've been using that HDD since probably 2016 or so. It's a WD Black.
On that HDD, I have recently ran every possible hardware diagnostic test, with various different software products, that I could find for free, and it always passes all of the tests, and no problems are noted by any of the software.
I really hate having to re-do all the millions of things that I'd need to do if I were to do a clean install of Windows; therefore, I try to avoid doing clean installs whenever possible.
On the other hand, I don't want to be stuck with a new computer that still takes forever to boot.
I have disabled all of the startup processes that I don't need in Task Manager.
It takes probably eight to ten minutes from the time I power on my computer, until the time when I am fully logged into Windows 10 and able to interact with the Windows UI.
Every time I start my computer, I am forced to spend many minutes of waiting for Windows to load, as I watch blue circles spinning around a black screen (but I can move my cursor around at this point), followed by gray dots comprising a circle spinning around for several more minutes at the logon screen.
My new computer is running a 9800X3D with 64 GB of CL 28 RAM and on an 870E motherboard.
I have installed a new Gen 4 SSD into my new computer, but I haven't yet done anything with it.
As far as I can tell, my only options that might possibly fix me having to wait forever to boot into Windows are:
1. Do a clean install of Windows 10 onto my new SSD. Or
2. Clone my old HDD onto my new SSD.
I'd prefer to do option 2, if that would actually work to solve the problem of my boot time taking eons.
But, if I were to do option 2, and then my boot time were still to take eons anyway, then I'd be upset that I wasted write endurance on my new SSD to clone my whole hard drive onto it, even though I'm just going to have to format it again right after that, and do a clean install of Windows after all.
Can you guys please advise me about this matter?
Would cloning my HDD to my SSD likely solve my problem of an uber-slow boot time?
Or would that probably not solve my problem, just like a new motherboard and new RAM didn't solve my problem?
I've been using that HDD since probably 2016 or so. It's a WD Black.
On that HDD, I have recently ran every possible hardware diagnostic test, with various different software products, that I could find for free, and it always passes all of the tests, and no problems are noted by any of the software.
I really hate having to re-do all the millions of things that I'd need to do if I were to do a clean install of Windows; therefore, I try to avoid doing clean installs whenever possible.
On the other hand, I don't want to be stuck with a new computer that still takes forever to boot.
I have disabled all of the startup processes that I don't need in Task Manager.
It takes probably eight to ten minutes from the time I power on my computer, until the time when I am fully logged into Windows 10 and able to interact with the Windows UI.
Every time I start my computer, I am forced to spend many minutes of waiting for Windows to load, as I watch blue circles spinning around a black screen (but I can move my cursor around at this point), followed by gray dots comprising a circle spinning around for several more minutes at the logon screen.
My new computer is running a 9800X3D with 64 GB of CL 28 RAM and on an 870E motherboard.
I have installed a new Gen 4 SSD into my new computer, but I haven't yet done anything with it.
As far as I can tell, my only options that might possibly fix me having to wait forever to boot into Windows are:
1. Do a clean install of Windows 10 onto my new SSD. Or
2. Clone my old HDD onto my new SSD.
I'd prefer to do option 2, if that would actually work to solve the problem of my boot time taking eons.
But, if I were to do option 2, and then my boot time were still to take eons anyway, then I'd be upset that I wasted write endurance on my new SSD to clone my whole hard drive onto it, even though I'm just going to have to format it again right after that, and do a clean install of Windows after all.
Can you guys please advise me about this matter?
Would cloning my HDD to my SSD likely solve my problem of an uber-slow boot time?
Or would that probably not solve my problem, just like a new motherboard and new RAM didn't solve my problem?