Migrating Data to D: and then cloning OS from C: to new SSD

Guys, Good News!

All the time and effort invested in prepping up my aging Seagate HDD for cloning finally paid off last night..

After trying the SSD included 'Samsung Migration' software one last time last night without success, I then decided to leave 'AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard' running over night, and this morning to my surprise it cloned everything from my drive C:\ [OS] without any errors what so ever, swapped out the old Seagate HDD and installed the SSD on the same SATA Port and everything works without any issues, all Libraries are located on drive D:\ as before and the boot-up takes about 30 seconds now, one a good day it took this PC at least 5 minutes to boot before; This PC only supports SATA 2, I wonder how much faster this SSD would be running on a a SATA 3 port.

All I need to do now is clean-up all the testing log files left behind from the old HDD recovery, etc, and look into upgrading the memory on this PC, after that this PC should be good to go until Windows 10 comes around...

I want to thank you all for the help and input, especially Gregrocker for pointing me to the Seagate's 'Seatools for DOS' tool, I think that scan is what saved the day for me, I'll also keep the Win7 reinstall tutorial link handy in a bookmark just in case..LOL. and thanks to VerKy for turning me on to that AOMEI Cloning software that was able to read the repaired HDD.

:)

I'd expect ten second startup with an SSD.

Check alignment and confirm no startup programs except lightweight AV and any sync. Then disable those to compare.

SSD Alignment

Thanks, I'll look into that, I read a 2012 tutorial for alignment but skipped it thinking the article only applied to first Generations SSDs...

This is what I get ..remember my PC is only able to do 3 Gb/s (SATA 2)plus it was just a calculation..never tried to exactly measure the boot time..

whs said:

30 sec boot is a bit long but 10 sec is ambitious. On my 7 systems that all have SSDs, the boot times vary between 15 sec and 25 sec. And over time it degrades a bit. Like on this system boot time is up to 20 sec from 3 years ago when it was 18 seconds. But that is an older Crucial M4.

My laptop is 5-10 seconds.

where can I reach "diagnostic performance" logs?

this folder doesn't show up in my 'Event viewer'..

Also, should I delete all the old previous log files/folders (ccleaner) like 'Windows error reporting' 'windows log files" etc and start new logs ?