XPS 8930, what have I done?

What is the exact model number of your system? Best guess is that Windows 11 created a partition on the HHD and the OS was installed there instead of on an SSD. Disk Management should be able to show you where that partition is located.

More details on how you added the SSD might help here. What/how was W11 updated?

Yes, capture the output of DESK MANAGEMENT (Windows Key+R and enter DISKMGMT.MSC) will show a lot more info about the disks and what IS the boot drive.

I suspect you have 2 bootable partitions, the original and the SSD? Might be booting from the HD and not the SSD now (slower)?

Also, do you still see the SSD in the BIOS and what is the boot order? When you use F12 on booting, do you see the SSD as a bootable option?

Of course, the PC info requested above as well.

I really do appreciate the help....hope these images are clear enuff!

Could Windows 11 be the issue?

Also on this machine, I run COREL GRAPHICS SUITE 2020....

Well, that last screen capture shows the ONLY boot drive IS the Samsung 2TB SSD.

So now you need to figure out why so slow?

Could be other Startup programs, bad drivers, damage SSD???

Also, you have a 'K' CPU, could a setting be changed?

There are programs you can run, Tweak-SSD, CPUID HWMON64, and CPU-Z that might shed some light on this?

Possible some BIOS settings were reset too, possibly by Windows Update replacing the BIOS.

You have 3 physical disks, and that F: was probably always there? Seems to have been the Original Boot Drive but it is fairly small? Did you pull that off another older PC? Only 250GB's and did have an OS on it at one time?

Could the BIOS be reset to RAID for the SSD vs. UHCI? That could slow you down?

THanks for trying to help me out here...but i have to be honest, youre speaking a different language. 

can you dumb it down a little for me? Im trying!

What specifically do you need help with?

What if anything have you tried or is stumping you?

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@Izmatic33 wrote:

 

1. I'm an electric sign designer/Crack engineer. I use my computer like a carpenter uses a Hammer.

2. I had a new ssd drive installed and all was well.

3. When I updated to windows 11 this OS F:drive popped up and my computer is slow.

4. Is there something I can do?

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1. No problem.

2. You say that like you had someone do it for you. Was it cloned or a clean-install? I suggest you get them to help you with this new problem,

3. Some strange things can happen with an in-place upgrade from Windows-10 to Windows-11 (depending on the existing state of the system). I've seen hidden Recovery Drives become un-hidden, etc.

4. Yes:

a. Backup whole system

b. Backup your data files for signs and any others docs and files that are important to running your business.