by rich071 » Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:03 am
Grabby,
Not sure if this will help with your issue, but I have a relative that has a Dell Studio 1558 notebook and the following is what I noticed on his laptop since I get the luxury of working on it when he has issues with it. The following was done a awhile back and I have since deleted the full backups since they were not needed anymore. This may show a possible conflict between the Dell Studio 1558 and BIBM. Notice, I said possible.
The first time I worked on it, I was amazed how slow booting the laptop was. For a machine that had a i5 processor and 8GB ram, it was way too slow. If my memory is correct, it had (4) partitions, (2) Dell partitions, which I had never seen before. Normally, they had (1) to restore the system. I backed up all (4) partitions, formatted the drive and restored the just the C partition. The machine booted, but the mouse and the keyboard did not work period. I then reformatted the HD and restored the second Dell and the C partitions. It booted fine and worked as expected, but it was still slow booting.
I didn't really want to, but the curiosity got the better of me. I reformatted the HD once again and reinstalled Windows from scratch. The machine booted fine and the boot speed increased drastically. I noticed Dell, had drivers and other items in the second partition. It was not as big as their restoration partition. At the time, I thought, why would they do this? Would the updated drivers actually be used under Windows? Was this some type of bios extension? This reminded me of the time, back in the mid 90's, my boss at the time, bought a HP Windows Deskjet. I don't remember the model. He bragged about how cheap it was until he discovered that it was designed for Windows only, You could not print under DOS at all. Needless to say, he replaced the printer.
Like I said, I'm not sure if the extra partition is causing any issues with BIBM. I'm curious about some info with your unit. If you answer is no, to the following, the above is more than likely a non issue with yours.
1. Is the Windows, the original OS that was shipped with the laptop?
2. Do you have (4) partitions on the HD, not counting the BIBM, if it was installed into it's own partition?
Not sure if it will help, but you may try to insert the drive into a USB dock or housing and see if that makes a difference. Tech Support can chime in on this since I have not tried to convert a USB drive to EMBR.
Do you have another system, to boot the BIBM from a flash drive or CD to see if you get the same problem?
I have been looking at the 2TB drive, like yours, to install in a Dell M6400 laptop, that already has BIBM installed, as a second internal drive. I'm looking for more storage than for speed. If I get the drive, I will report back with any issues that I encounter.
I hope some of the info, above, helps.