Windows 10: USB stick prevents boot since update to 1903 - and slowwwwwww performa

Hi out there,

Surprise, surprise! Since (painfully) updating to 1903: several new problems.

Two of the main ones:

When having any USB stick plugged in, boot is halted almost after startup. Unplugging the stick(s) and hitting Enter resumes boot. Plugging USB stick(s) back in after boot makes them function normally.
Judging from the several
Internet pages o,n the same topic, this is already an old Windows quirk. But I never had it before the 1903 update... which was done after a totally and deep clean reinstall of Windows (what else is new with Windows updates?)

But the preceding quirl is but a minor annoyance compared to the following, post 1903 update: the whole computer has slowed down to a snail crawl, keuboard and mouse reaction included, which gradually gets faster after half an hour or so, but never up to the pre-update level - and again I don't seem the only victim,of this marvellous new Microsoft enhancement.

So, what am I to do? Please help me with a solution, with the second problem a priority.

PS - I am now trying out the "solution" proposed by the Windows specialist in:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...9-e1bb9207b9d1
But it is painfully slow, and I have not great confidence in the result...

Thanks,



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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

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xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

USB stick previously used as a boot stick for Killdisk not recognized


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Free to Remove Readonly Attribute in Windows

Method 2: Clear readonly status with Diskpart

In Windows 10, 8, 7 OS, you are also able to run Diskpart in Command Prompt to clear read-only attribute on any partition on your computer. You can follow the tutorial below:

Step 1. Open Command Line and type Diskpart
Step 2. Type list disk
Step 3. Type select disk (disk number)
Step 4. Type attributes disk clear readonly





Then try Clean