100Mb system reserved partition is on a slower drive

Eggman · 14 Apr 2011 at 19:29

If the windows 7 OS is installed on my SSD but the system reserved partition is on a slower spindrive (yes I didnt unplug all other drives on installation!), will this slow my boot times?

SiriusB · 14 Apr 2011 at 21:54

Probably not.

uv · 15 Apr 2011 at 12:21

It's just for the boot loader - if it's going to have any affect on boot times, it'lkl be negligable.

Rule of thumb - when installing windows, unplug every drive bar the boot drive - Windows has a really annoying habit of choosing the bootloader drive seemingly at random, often overwriting other bootloaders!

SiriusB · 15 Apr 2011 at 15:15

uv said:
It's just for the boot loader - if it's going to have any affect on boot times, it'lkl be negligable.

Rule of thumb - when installing windows, unplug every drive bar the boot drive - Windows has a really annoying habit of choosing the bootloader drive seemingly at random, often overwriting other bootloaders!

Not really random. I have found that if a Windows install already exists, it will use the same boot drive as that previous install. If no other OS is detected, it tends to pick the first drive listed by the BIOS, regardless of which drive the OS will eventually be installed to.

I haven't tested this exhaustively [read: never!

] but whenever it has come up I have noticed the same pattern.