After cloning SSD, start up is slower and missing user log in screen,

[In_kognitoe]

Hi,

I recently cloned the samsung 860EVO SSD to a Toshiba 1T SSD using Acronis,

Everything works however i noticed that the user screen that used to appear is no longer appearing and its taking longer to load the desktop, attached is a screen shot of disk management with both disk, 

i read so many articles about recovery partition missing and system not booting up from there instead of c drive, 

Any suggestions to getting the way it used to be on the new SSD?

thanks

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@In_kognitoe

I know you said you "cloned" it -- but that is a generic term that most folks use incorrectly, because a "clone" is an EXACT copy, with all the same sectors, and the same size.

The only way to "get the way it used to be" onto the new drive is to do an actual "clone" -- as in, a sector-by-sectory copy with NO changes.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
2) Follow the instructions in this link: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk
3) Shutdown the PC when done
4) Swap the boot drives to boot from the new drive

5) Reboot.

You should have no issues if you do it this way -- as I have done this numerous times without problems.

[In_kognitoe]

Thanks for the quick respone.

i used Acronis true image to clone the disks, apart from the initial boot up time to get to the desktop which is about 1min longer than the original i have no issues, everything seems to be there and working, 

i guess i expected to be as fast, but maybe a bigger drive is slightly slower.

i will try what you recommended and see, other than that, thanks for the info.

[WAWood]

I stopped using Acronis years ago when I needed to do a restore -- and it failed me.  I've been using MR ever since; so I can't provide any help on using Acronis.

As to the larger drive, I have several PCs using SSDs ranging from 120GB to 500GB and I notice no difference in boot up times.  So, the size of the drive should not matter -- although SSDs do have different performance ratings.  So, some will be slower than other.