- Slow startup beacause of harddrive
- Posted by ms on October 31st, 2005
hey, i recently installed a old hardrive i had on my last computer and since
i installed it the computer takes longer time to start,
Is there any setting i can change so that it goes faster to start? i have
formatted the harddrive but that didnt help
- Posted by Dave Patrick on October 31st, 2005
Generally the slowest device will determine the speed for the channel so try
moving it to the drive controller's other channel. Also check the
instructions for your hardware.
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"ms" wrote:
> hey, i recently installed a old hardrive i had on my last computer and
> since
> i installed it the computer takes longer time to start,
> Is there any setting i can change so that it goes faster to start? i have
> formatted the harddrive but that didnt help
- Posted by Ted Zieglar on October 31st, 2005
You don't say how "old" your old hard disk is. New IDE hard disks have
faster electronics than older hard disks. You should always run Windows from
the fastest hard disk you can manage.
Something else you could check is whether your old hard disk is using the
faster DMA transfer mode rather than the slower PIO mode. To find out, go to
Control Panel > System> Hardware tab > Device Manager button > Primary IDE
Channel Properties (the disk with Windows should be the Master on the
Primary IDE channel) > Advanced Settings.
You could also download and run the disk diagnostics available from the disk
manufacturer's web site. That should tell you if the disk itself has a
problem.
With large hard disks (120GB - 160GB) commonly available for less than $50,
you really should be running Windows from a fast hard disk.
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Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."
"ms" <ms@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8DBCA8C6-9536-473E-A14F-9FB0D0849FCA@microsoft.com...
> hey, i recently installed a old hardrive i had on my last computer and
since
> i installed it the computer takes longer time to start,
> Is there any setting i can change so that it goes faster to start? i have
> formatted the harddrive but that didnt help
- Posted by Gerry Cornell on November 1st, 2005
Ted
I have two drives. The primary has Ultra DMA Mode 1 for Device 0 and for
Device 1. The Secondary has Ultra DMA Mode 1 for Device 0 and PIO Mode
for Device 1.
What does this mean?
TIA
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Gerry
"Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> wrote in message
news:uFfD69j3FHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> You don't say how "old" your old hard disk is. New IDE hard disks have
> faster electronics than older hard disks. You should always run
> Windows from
> the fastest hard disk you can manage.
>
> Something else you could check is whether your old hard disk is using
> the
> faster DMA transfer mode rather than the slower PIO mode. To find out,
> go to
> Control Panel > System> Hardware tab > Device Manager button > Primary
> IDE
> Channel Properties (the disk with Windows should be the Master on the
> Primary IDE channel) > Advanced Settings.
>
> You could also download and run the disk diagnostics available from
> the disk
> manufacturer's web site. That should tell you if the disk itself has a
> problem.
>
> With large hard disks (120GB - 160GB) commonly available for less than
> $50,
> you really should be running Windows from a fast hard disk.
>
> --
> Ted Zieglar
> "You can do it if you try."
>
> "ms" <ms@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8DBCA8C6-9536-473E-A14F-9FB0D0849FCA@microsoft.com...
>> hey, i recently installed a old hardrive i had on my last computer
>> and
> since
>> i installed it the computer takes longer time to start,
>> Is there any setting i can change so that it goes faster to start? i
>> have
>> formatted the harddrive but that didnt help
>
- Posted by Ted Zieglar on November 1st, 2005
DMA is short for direct memory access, a technique for transferring data from main memory to a device without passing it through the CPU.
Ted Zieglar
"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message news:Ou9IjPo3FHA.252@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Ted
>
> I have two drives. The primary has Ultra DMA Mode 1 for Device 0 and for
> Device 1. The Secondary has Ultra DMA Mode 1 for Device 0 and PIO Mode
> for Device 1.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> TIA
>
> --
>
> ~~~~
>
> Gerry
>
> "Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uFfD69j3FHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> You don't say how "old" your old hard disk is. New IDE hard disks have
>> faster electronics than older hard disks. You should always run
>> Windows from
>> the fastest hard disk you can manage.
>>
>> Something else you could check is whether your old hard disk is using
>> the
>> faster DMA transfer mode rather than the slower PIO mode. To find out,
>> go to
>> Control Panel > System> Hardware tab > Device Manager button > Primary
>> IDE
>> Channel Properties (the disk with Windows should be the Master on the
>> Primary IDE channel) > Advanced Settings.
>>
>> You could also download and run the disk diagnostics available from
>> the disk
>> manufacturer's web site. That should tell you if the disk itself has a
>> problem.
>>
>> With large hard disks (120GB - 160GB) commonly available for less than
>> $50,
>> you really should be running Windows from a fast hard disk.
>>
>> --
>> Ted Zieglar
>> "You can do it if you try."
>>
>> "ms" <ms@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8DBCA8C6-9536-473E-A14F-9FB0D0849FCA@microsoft.com...
>>> hey, i recently installed a old hardrive i had on my last computer
>>> and
>> since
>>> i installed it the computer takes longer time to start,
>>> Is there any setting i can change so that it goes faster to start? i
>>> have
>>> formatted the harddrive but that didnt help
>>
>
