Z690 Somewhat slow boot vs previous Z170 built

[P4-630]

The windows install seems to have created 3 partitions, weirdly enough a 611MB partition at the end?
After the windows installation I used samsung magician to set over provisioning.

Edit:
I like windows 11 sofar, no issues overall, just a bit of a slow boot.
Mind you , I don't make use of "fast boot" setting since that was causing issues in the past so not using that anymore.
It's just that it is booting somewhat slower than my previous Z170 built.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Post another full disk management screen shot like this one

 

[Quigly]

Yup, totally normal. Windows hides some stuff there for recovery afaik, not sure what - must be smuggling drugs or something.

 

[ThrashZone]

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The windows install and samsung magician created the partitions

Hi,
Okay you're on an old upgrade install
100mb ouch that means you have other system reserved "really system restore plus recovery tools" partitions created when large windows updates are installed and they must be on different disks and why your startup is slower than it should be except when you're in bios

Bottom line you need to increase the 100mb partition to 750mb so next large update install recovery info on it and not on another one somewhere other than C disk.
Then remove any system restore partitions anywhere else.

Also helps if C is disk 0 not 3...

 

[P4-630]

Disk 3 (C is a samsung 980 pro which is installed between de CPU and GPU.

 

[Toothless]

Why do you have so much space not used? Like, just combine the unused into the partitions.

 

[P4-630]

Why do you have so much space not used? Like, just combine the unused into the partitions.

Samsung magician did that (over provisioning)

 

[eidairaman1]

Been like that since Vista

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Well
Usually efi is only 16mb and is first so good it is a efi paprtition because old windows creaded a 100mb system reserved to lol which imagine my surprise to see it there
2nd is usually a system reserved of various sizes
3rd C

I increased my system reserved just for kicks

You might turn off and get rid of the over provisioning partition it might be slowing boot.

 

[P4-630]

Usually efi is only 16mb and is first so good it is a efi paprtition because old windows creaded a 100mb system reserved to lol which imagine my surprise to see it there

Well it was a clean windows 11 install from USB STick and for the install I only had the samsung 980 1TB installed on the motherboard.

 

[ThrashZone]

Well it was a clean windows 11 install from USB STick and for the install I only had the samsung 980 1TB installed on the motherboard.

Hi,
That's odd because 100mb is to small for all recovery stuff And you say sammy created the other system recovery partition.

 

[P4-630]

Hi,
That's odd because 100mb is to small for all recovery stuff And you say sammy created the other system recovery partition.

Samsung Magician created the unallocated 93.15GB partition between it.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Just ran into this but it's better to have system reserved larger and before C I've found
But face it recovery partition increases 24mb per update lol so maybe 1gb would be best

Microsoft appears to have fixed the Recovery Partition hell in Windows 10 - gHacks Tech News

Fresh installations of Windows 10 version 2004 and newer will always place the Recovery Partition after the operating system partition on the main disk.

www.ghacks.net

This change is also why ms screws up linux grub if dual booting with linux.

 

[Toothless]

Samsung magician did that (over provisioning)

I've never had that on any of my Samsung SSDs. That's weird.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Welcome to the newer version of magician lol

 

[P4-630]

I've never had that on any of my Samsung SSDs. That's weird.

It's not that samsung magician just created that itself without me knowing.
I just used the over provisioning option in samsung magician for all my SSD's.

 

[ThrashZone]

Since it's unallocated guessing it won't stop windows from increasing system reserved when it wants to.

Hi,
Disk 0, which m.2 slot is that or is this a sata port ?

 

[P4-630]

Disk 0, which m.2 slot is that or is this a sata port ?

Disk 0 is a sata ssd

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Which exact sata ports are you using now.
Think sata 1 and 2 are best for os disks
If not using them as such maybe try using other sata ports instead and leave 1 and 2 unused

 

[P4-630]

Hi,
Which exact sata ports are you using now.
Think sata 1 and 2 are best for os disks
If not using them as such maybe try using other sata ports instead and leave 1 and 2 unused

Would it matter?
I have bought the 980 pro M.2 for OS.

 

[Toothless]

Okay, like, which ports are being used isn't going to change anything.

To the thread question, yes it's normal.

 

[ARF]

That "over-provisioning" is quite controversial, if you need it or no.
I would vote for no and delete it. You don't need so great amounts of free space sitting there doing nothing, maybe if your drives get full, that will be used to optimise the performance...

After reading this, no.
SSD Over-Provisioning And Its Benefits | Seagate UK

 

[ThrashZone]

Would it matter?
I have bought the 980 pro M.2 for OS.

Hi,
On a asus board they color shade different sata ports
1 & 2 are Darker that 3-6 or how ever many there are

But as I said 1 is usually an os port even if you use an m.2 as it shows a sata as disk 0
This is why I asked

No big deal to switch to 4-5-6 and leave 1 and 2 unused.
Might help boot.

Toothless knows nothing of the slow boot issue

 

[lexluthermiester]

I always preconfigure partitions before installing Windows. A small partition for temp files and the pagefile followed by a larger partition for the main install. Keeps things simple and forces Windows to keep all files in folders where they belong for user inspection/management.

 

[Toothless]

Hi,
On a asus board they color shade different sata ports
1 & 2 are Darker that 3-6 or how ever many there are

But as I said 1 is usually an os port even if you use an m.2 as it shows a sata as disk 0
This is why I asked

No big deal to switch to 4-5-6 and leave 1 and 2 unused.
Might help boot.

Toothless knows nothing of the slow boot issue

You're not even close to answering the thread question and keep going on about other things. Don't even try the "know nothing" bs.

You even ignored that they're using M.2 NVME for boot, and STILL go on about SATA ports.