![]() I’ve never used the reset this PC feature, but… These estimates take into consideration installation time, reboots, and file preparation time. I wasn’t interested in slower install methods, but one of the links did cover it… ![]() We did that in the old days because CD-ROM media was so much slower than a hard drive. I could probably confirm the win98 behavior, though I was more interested in windows 11 today, which I don’t have. Additional software/scripts could be placed on the installation media to run after installation and this would automatically run on first boot. copy the installer files from the installation media to a temporary folder on the hard drive, make the hard drive bootable, and reboot into the installer running from the hard drive.įrom what I recall about the windows 98 installer, it was just the finalization process that took place after rebooting, but the bulk of OS installation had already taken place. If that’s true then it suggests that the overhead is common between both types of installs.įor a clean installation it sort of does what we all used to manually do with Windows 95 and 98, i.e. I haven’t independently confirmed it, but the last link said it took almost the same amount of time for in place and fresh install. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong* but my understanding is that for an in-place upgrade, the installer will first back up the old OS installation to a windows.old folder, perform the upgrade, then merge everything back together. It seems the installation process is just very poorly optimized and inflates the install time by several hundred/thousand percent above what the underlying hardware is actually capable of. More than enough time to do plug and play and extract files. I have to ask why is it so slow? I guess microsoft are doing more stuff in the process, but I still don’t see why it should take more than 2 minutes max given the state of hardware. Making a clean Windows 11 install took roughly the same amount of time. In my case, for example, on a fast PC with an NVMe drive, it took about 10 minutes to upgrade to Windows 11 once On average, it takes anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour I haven’t installed windows 11 personally, but here links covering windows 11 install time… So depending on how/where the files are installed, it should take anywhere from 9s to 30s for an unoptimized installer. Typical m.2 drives can handle 600MB/s random writes and exceed 2GB/s sequential writes, and according to this source Windows home and pro are about 18GB installed (seems bloated to me, but whatever). Hardware has improved to the point where I don’t really see why we should have to wait for installs any more.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |