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December 23rd, 2021 12:00
XPS 8930, help with replacing SSD boot drive
I replaced 256G SSD card with a WD black SN750 Nvme 500GB ssd that was cloned from original 256G that was on XPS 8930. Now the PC boots extremely slow. I tried switching from RAID to AHCI but would not boot. This has probably been asked before but I can't seem to find the solution. I would like to also change the boot priority to boot from the cloned SSD but can't seem to get there on BIOS.
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December 24th, 2021 18:00
@dteckie Since the new SSD is larger than the OEM SSD, you will want to increase the size of the C: partition on the new SSD to use all the available extra space. If you don't increase the size of C:, the extra spaces goes to waste...
Exactly how you expand C: depends on the cloning software you use. If you use Macrium, as was recommended, be sure to follow the instructions at step #5 here to increase the C: partition's size.
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December 25th, 2021 20:00
It sounds like a bad clone-job.
Or a (finally now after all these years) ... a corrupt Windows install. For which a clean-Windows install is the answer (like @redxps630 suggested in 2nd post ) . You would be done by now.
Better than cloning is creating an image-file of old C-drive, booting Macrium Recovery USB, have only new C-drive SSD installed, and do a "bare metal" restore. It's fast and easy.
Finally, if you are not keeping your licenses and serial numbers for software you have purchased and still use ... well, that is definitely not recommended or even necessary.
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December 26th, 2021 12:00
You can always run Belarc Advisor (free) to capture the product keys for all apps installed on the old drive. Print out the Belarc results page, so you'll have the keys handy if/when you do a clean install.
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December 29th, 2021 15:00
@dteckie - Glad to have helped.
WU has been forcing Realtek driver updates on the XPS 8930 so it's possible WU force installed that recent bum driver update and enabled RealTek in Device Manager.
Keep in mind that every time the Realtek driver gets (force) updated, Waves MaxxAudio Pro software gets uninstalled and then reinstalled again. So either uninstall Waves or -at the least- make sure it won't launch at boot. You can check/change Wave's boot status on the Startup tab in Task Manager.
If Waves isn't listed on that Startup tab, click Start>Run>services.msc and click OK. When services.msc opens, if Waves Audio Service is listed, right-click and disable it. Don't change any other services. Then exit services.msc and reboot...
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December 30th, 2021 06:00
Good Point! I hate it when they force software on your system without giving you a choice. Microsoft is the worst offender. At least for the first time they asked if I wanted Win 11 to be installed and rejected it. I'm 99.9% pos I don't have Waves MaxxAudio. Just have to keep checking they don't put it back in my pc. Thanks Ron. I never would have suspected that RealTek was the culprit.
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December 30th, 2021 11:00
If you see a Realtek driver got forced-fed to your XPS 8930, you'll know Waves got installed too.
I typically find out about a forced Realtek update when my desktop speakers start sounding terrible. Whenever Waves gets installed, it misidentifies my speakers as "internal", instead of "external" so I check what WU recently installed.