Newbie with HDD/SSD setup and slow computer

Hi,

I have a new Lenovo x230 with W7 Pro initially installed to the 300 GB HDD, then shortly afterwards I bought an SSD (120 GB mSATA) and installed W7 to the SSD. I did not disconnect the HDD when I installed W7 on the SSD (so effectively have 2 copies of W7). The SSD is now the C: drive and the HDD is the D: drive. The laptop clearly boots from the C: drive (SSD) so I am ok there.

Nothing seems to run quickly. Wake-up from hibernation is very slow and even browsing the web is much slower than the previous Vaio Z series I had that died a while ago. I am trying to get my system optimized so that it runs as efficiently and quickly as possible.

I am good at following computer directions (I can customize things, install drives, jailbreak phones and things) but the research I have done on on things like moving the system reserve partition (which is what I suspect is wrong) is too advanced for poor ol' me. Here is a pic attached showing my systems drives, does this help? Glad to post more info, just tell me what you want to see.

Thanks!

Thank you, this makes sense but I have an mSATA drive that my friend plugged into the mSATA "port" inside the laptop. Can I switch the leads on this computer?

FYI here is how the VM is set up. Note that "D" is the system drive even though C is the Win7 drive (and I believe D is a partition on the mSATA SSD anyway, as I only have 2 drives: C (mSATA) and E (HDD). Does this help?

sammyone said:

My Mistake - after NOW researching the Lenovo x230 I find that this is a LAPTOP and you seem to be running a Virtual Machine... VM

with ?two? drives - I had assumed a desktop unit where the SATA sockets 0,1,2,3 also denote basic boot order for the drives.

Sorry - My advise is NOT useful...

No, the picture shows Virtual Memory allocation not virtual machine.
In any case, the SSD as stated in the original post is mSATA.

Based on the pics and info, can anyone help?

Thank you!

Remove the built-in HDD and boot up the machine. See if it changes anything. Do you need to have 2 Win7-Installations running?

Otherwise wipe your HDD and check your bootloader to have only the one entry for the SSD-OS.

well that sounds interesting...

Can't tell if removing the HDD and putting it back will have the problem solved but I guess it's not a big deal to try if removing the HDD helps so just try that and report back how it went.

Also maybe do a benchmark for SSDs like "ATTO" and report results. That could also give us a idea of what makes your system slow.