Macrium cloned drive REALLY slow

So, what was the actual cause of the problem and what fixed it? This thread has been marked solved.

There is no one particular cause that solved the problem, I did a bunch of cleanup and now it runs a lot smoother. The various links to tutorials other posters have suggested helped and led me to other tutorials: Disk Cleanup, using msconfig to limit startup, looking through and disabling services, uninstall unneeded programs, emptying recycling bin, Malwarebyte and AV scan. I'm not a frequent user of this computer so it was not kept to my "housekeeping standards." Over time junk just piled up.

Upon looking over the Event Viewer, I did see Bonjour has a bunch of errors constantly. Goggled it, seems like others have had same problem. Disabled in startup it for now, considering uninstalling, but I'm not familiar with Apple stuff I don't know if it's needed for the iPhone. If iTunes doesn't work wife's not going to be happy no matter how smoothly the computer runs. Looks like Bonjour is for Apple networking hardware stuff; don't know why Apple would install it since I'm betting not many PC users use Apple network hardware.

Thank you. I'm going to be doing the same thing as you—cloning the HHD in my notebook to another one only, in this case, the clone is going to a hybrid HDD—and just wanted to be ready for as many potential problems as possible. The OS install on the notebook is pretty new so, hopefully, I won't run into any "clean up" issues.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Thank you. I'm going to be doing the same thing as you—cloning the HHD in my notebook to another one only, in this case, the clone is going to a hybrid HDD—and just wanted to be ready for as many potential problems as possible. The OS install on the notebook is pretty new so, hopefully, I won't run into any "clean up" issues.

Have you considered imaging the drive and restoring it instead?

GeneO said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Thank you. I'm going to be doing the same thing as you—cloning the HHD in my notebook to another one only, in this case, the clone is going to a hybrid HDD—and just wanted to be ready for as many potential problems as possible. The OS install on the notebook is pretty new so, hopefully, I won't run into any "clean up" issues.

Have you considered imaging the drive and restoring it instead?

More work and time that way. Cloning the existing HDD to the new hybrid HDD is a single operation, after which I just have to physically swap drives. With imaging, I would have to make an image of the drive to a third drive, "restore it" to the new drive—two operations—before I could do the physical swap.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

GeneO said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Thank you. I'm going to be doing the same thing as you—cloning the HHD in my notebook to another one only, in this case, the clone is going to a hybrid HDD—and just wanted to be ready for as many potential problems as possible. The OS install on the notebook is pretty new so, hopefully, I won't run into any "clean up" issues.

Have you considered imaging the drive and restoring it instead?

More work and time that way. Cloning the existing HDD to the new hybrid HDD is a single operation, after which I just have to physically swap drives. With imaging, I would have to make an image of the drive to a third drive, "restore it" to the new drive—two operations—before I could do the physical swap.

Agreed. After I determined the difference between cloning and imaging, I opted for cloning with the knowledge that they are functionally equivalent for my purposes. With other scenarios, imaging might be a better option.

mjf said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

GeneO said:

Have you considered imaging the drive and restoring it instead?

More work and time that way. Cloning the existing HDD to the new hybrid HDD is a single operation, after which I just have to physically swap drives. With imaging, I would have to make an image of the drive to a third drive, "restore it" to the new drive—two operations—before I could do the physical swap.

I guess you do what you are comfortable with. I have never bothered with cloning. There may be 2 operations with imaging but it is faster in the end and every image can restore your existing HDD or restore to a new HDD straight out of box.

Actually, cloning is significantly faster, far simpler, and doesn't require a third drive (or extra space on the original drive, something that isn't always available), especially when transferring to a single drive. Transferring to multiple drives might be faster with imaging.

I like cloning myself. D: is my cloned drive, if C: has a problem, just reboot and choose D: as the start up. Its a 30 second operation. The cloning process is a "smart" process. i.e. only clones the files that have changed since last clone. Not to be confused with incremental backup. If I do it once per week, it is a 4-7 minute process, without interrupting your current work. When C: might have a problem, I boot to D:, clone D: back to C: (assuming it was not a hardware problem) The more often I clone, the less amount of catchup I have to do.