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Lately, I've cloned my HDD to OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD.

I disconnected the HDD and booted from SSD. Then the speed of SSD showed its beauty. But not really, because it took ages to load the Windows.

When I looked into Task Manager I saw the Disk was at 100% all the time and speed of read/write was at 2MB/s at peaks. That's not what I hoped for while buying that drive.

And I've been wondering if it could be the drivers issue, as a cloned drive has installed drivers from HDD and thus it can behave strangely.

I've downloaded a tool OWC SSD Firmware Updater but haven't tried to install it yet. The 350MB tool could take a while.

So my question is, could it be the drivers? I don't what to install Windows from scratch.

PS. I've cloned the drive using Clonezilla and the whole drive is encrypted by TrueCrypt.

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  • “So my question is, could it be the drivers?“ - No
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 7:24
  • @Ramhound Could you elaborate?
    – Kamil
    Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 7:41
  • You said the ssd "speed showed it's beauty" so it's performance is really good then? It's just windows boots slow & won't stop writing? (The drive's internal firmware isn't the same as windows' drivers, changing firmware could have cons)
    – Xen2050
    Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 8:27
  • I meant it as a sarcasm for general experience. When I installed Ubuntu and run it it was running smothly. Thanks for the tip about firmware, I thought it was the driver - my bad.
    – Kamil
    Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 8:49
  • It could be a cloning issue, try a clean install.
    – Moab
    Commented Apr 5, 2018 at 22:32

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