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? asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 7 years ago

Windows 8.1 on the go ver slow.?

I created a portable vrsion of windows 8.1 on my 16gb san disk flashdrive usng wintousb. I know it isnt prper windows 8.1 but it says it I a version of it. Anyways the flashdrive is usb 2.0. I mainly boot it off a desktop with 64 bit windows 8. The windows 8.1 flashdriveis 32 bit. It runs very poorly and slowly. It takes about 5 minutes to boot than 3 to login. Then for about 10 minutes I cant do anything bcause it freezes up. Afterthe 10 minutesit works pretty good but with a little lag but thats ok. Today I tried the flashdrive on an old dell inspiron d610 and it booted up really fast and didnt freeze at all. It only took about 5 minutes to boot and login adi didnt have to wait the 10 minutes to ue it. On the desktop I use a usb 3.0 port becaue its all thats avaliable on the laptop I used 2.0 because all that was avaliable. Why did it boot so much faster on the older laptop? Why does it lag so bad on my desktop. I unerstand the diffrence between 32 and 64 bit operating systems but could thelag be from booting on a 64 bit machine and not using all the memory? Im very confused right now and would really like to know why? I do think it may be that the windows 8 special bios boot settings. I disaled secure boot and enabled uefi boot sources though and enabled virtua pc. All settngs not avalible on the old laptop

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  • Rich
    Lv 5
    7 years ago
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    here's my guess... you created this drive using the laptop so all the drivers (especially chipset) are matched for the laptops hardware... then you stick it on the desktop and since the hardware is different than the laptop, a lot of the drivers are failing to load quickly/properly... I'm surprised it even works at all..

    from xp on up, if you take a drive from one system and put it in another with a different chipset.. the results are usually BSODs and a mostly ruined OS... I've gotten away with doing this (swapping images across machines) because I use acronis universal restore https://kb.acronis.com/content/47165

  • 7 years ago

    for the flash drive itself, it doesn't matter if your desktop has usb 3.0. It will bottleneck to the 2.0 usb flash drive speed. As far as booting from desktop vs old laptop, maybe your desktop has a lot more things it is trying to load? hardware, or maybe more security that natuarally comes with 64 vs 32?

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