System Slowness After Clone Disk
I recently used the clone disk feature to go from a 500GB SATA II drive (5400 RPM) to a 1000GB SATA II drive (5200 RPM) and everything seemed to work, but since then my laptop has been painfully slow and programs take forever to start up. I have been using resource monitor to watch the memory and CPU load, but it is not excessive. I am wondering if the cloning is the cause of the slowness and whether or not backing the partition up using regular backup and then restoring the partition on a file level would be any help.

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Just curious as to what operating system and the make and model of the new drive? Could this be one of the new Western Digital types which may operate slower in XP if not aligned according to their specs?
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I'm having the same problem as Scott. I used Acronis True Image WD Edition to clone my old Samsung 80GB SATA hard drive to my new WD Caviar Blue 320GB SATA hard drive. I kept the old drive in its slot and installed the WD drive. In Windows, I used the Acronis True Image WD Edition to clone and manually adjusted the partitions for the target drive. When I finally clicked Proceed, nothing happened. So, I burned the bootable recovery disc on to a CDRW and booted off of that and went through the cloning process again. This time, it was successful. I then went into the BIOS and changed the hard drive booting order. Afterwards, I noticed that booting and launching applications has become significantly slower. I'm hoping that somebody has new light to shed on this issue?
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
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I think I may have to take back my previous post. After a couple of reboots, it seems that the time it takes to bootup into Windows 7 has returned to normal as has launching programs. Go figure.
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