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when I moved on to windows 10 before, I installed it on my
hard drive, as opposed to my SSD, because my plan was to install linux on the SSD and use that primarily
but windows is convenient. some of my favorite software (e.g. sharex) isn't available for linux. not to mention a ton of games
until lately, the hard drive has been doing fine. so I just never bothered to try swapping them over before. however, in the past couple of days I've been playing just cause 3, and I've been having a few problems that I suspect are related to the hard drive being slow. and it
is slow, it's a WD green
also on my new laptop the start menu is real snappy, and it has an SSD. on my desktop though, it feels slow, particularly searching. until now I never thought that it was because of the hard drive
anyway, I made this post to ask if anyone knows of any good ways to move a windows installation over to another drive. I would just do a fresh installation of windows on the SSD, but I don't want to download the installation media again, and maybe more importantly, I don't want to go through all of the setup again. I have excruciatingly slow internet
I tried... something... a while ago, which was this little bootable .iso file that was meant for this kind of thing. I can't remember the name of it. it didn't work out, but that might have been because of the weird things I was trying to do, which was move the contents of an entire drive to a partition of another (the trouble, I'm sure, had to do with the "system reserved" partition). this time it's backwards, I'm moving an installation that's on a partition of one drive to a whole device. on that note, whatever method I use has to be able to move from a drive that is larger than the target drive. the contents of the hard drive will fit on the SSD, but the total size is larger. also, if necessary, I can remove the other partition on the hard drive, so that the entire drive is JUST windows. that wouldn't be much trouble
edit: here is why I suspect the hard drive is the cause of my just cause 3 performance issues
write is purple, read is yellow. note that i/o is not graphed by percentage like the others. so even though the spikes don't reach the top of the graph, they still represent a lot of use. and more importantly, they coincide with lag. the sections where it's mostly purple, with little yellow, is during cutscenes, which go by smoothly. through all of this the cpu usage is only around 50% or so, which is why I'm assuming it's not that. where it drops off at the end is when I alt+tabbed out of the game
some other reasons for the assumption is that it happens more when I'm moving around, and large explosions don't cause it. sometimes the game shows you little videos for vehicles or other things you've unlocked, and those cause the lag real bad, which I imagine is because it's reading the video file. sometimes when opening the map it either lags or when zooming in is blurry for longer than it should be. lastly, when I save a video with shadowplay, there is always one huge lag spike
(also, I don't have 15GB of RAM, only 8. not really sure why it's graphed like that, but I guess percentage is more important)
so yeah, I'm pretty confident that the issue is the hard drive. although I don't really get why i/o would stop rendering...
another edit: I change my mind. I think it's a memory problem. I didn't think about it before but that would explain why it doesn't start to really happen until I've been playing for a while. the disk usage can be explained by windows using it in place of RAM. but how do I fix this...
not really an edit but if I didn't pretend it was it would be weird to add this: I googled and found a reddit post about these issues, and found this
"It's some sort of memory leak caused by having an Xbox One controller plugged in when playing JC3. I had stuttering but when I plug out the controller it frees up over 2gb ram and then the games runs perfect."
guess we'll see if that helps, although I'm using a 360 controllerprobably not the last edit: no such luck. now what? perhaps it's time to get more memory.
this is my motherboard.
this is the ram I have nowI can just add more, right? like, I don't have to
replace it necessarily? so I could just buy the same thing again and add it? I know I have two more slots
also despite the fact that it wasn't the cause of my jc3 problems, I would still like to move windows to the SSD. I'll make everything irrelevant smaller now
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