But the boot is super fast now. Old drive was starting to corrupt and some programs would render the computer useless until a restart was manually forced. Cleaned up the drive, deleted a lot of unused programs, defragged, and ran check disk to no avail. nothing would be repaired or found on the check disk. Ordered a new samsung ssd and couldnt get it to clone. ran check disk again yesterday and it took over 6 hours to complete/repair the existing drive.
then, ran into issues with downsizing the drive. none of the programs used at first were able to deal with trimming the c: partition to a smaller size. finally found AOMEI to clone with that was able to handle it. biggest issue by far was trying to clone from a failing drive. shit took forever. but it is done. now I have to order a caddy to convert the dvd drive to a second hard drive and order another drive for file storage.
then, ran into issues with downsizing the drive. none of the programs used at first were able to deal with trimming the c: partition to a smaller size. finally found AOMEI to clone with that was able to handle it. biggest issue by far was trying to clone from a failing drive. shit took forever. but it is done. now I have to order a caddy to convert the dvd drive to a second hard drive and order another drive for file storage.