i have a pentium d 2.66ghz 1gbram running windows xp mce 2005 with a maxtor 160gb hard drive everything was fine until i installed a new hard drive (western digital 80gb) i left my os on the standard 160gb and just use the 80gb for staorge but now when i boot up it takes a really long time for the hard drive check at the beginning(where it tells you how many har drives and how big) and after it finnaly does i get a black screen then a grey loading type bar at the bottom then it boots into windows, both hard drives are connected by sata, anyone help?
2007-02-09 11:20:58 · 10 answers · asked by ajax2681 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
its ntfs its not because of the hd being fragmented or full it done it when the hd had just been installed
2007-02-09 11:44:20 · update #1
you could change which drives boot up in the cmos first. just choose the drive with the os as first. and take the other drive off the list in the cmos setup. PC should boot faster.
2007-02-09 11:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is probably because your windows is no longer using DMA on your boot drive or possibly both drives.
You can check for it this way.
Right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties" , in the pop up window that follows, go to "Hardware" tab, and click on "Device Manager", navigate down to "IDE ATA Controllers" and double click on it, now double click on primary and secondary channels in turn and make sure that both drives are using DMA for transfer mode ( under advance settings), if one or more are not , then that is the cause of your slow boot, to cure it, right click on main ATA controller ( not the primary or secondary but the third item) and choose "Uninstall" , the system will ask you , if you are sure, and then ask you to reboot, on next reboot, they will get identified and installed and 9 out of 10, windows will get it right, reboot one more time, and you should be OK.
2007-02-09 11:57:22 · answer #2 · answered by Morbeous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you select the 80 gb hard drive to slave setting and not master. If you still have problems you could buy an external hard drive case, get one from ebay for about £20 or try your local pc shop, not pc world cos they just too expensive. I got a sunvision one with a little fan in it. Cost me about £18. I store all my files on that and what is really great is that it is portable. I downloaded all my work files from our server at work and that came in really handy when our works server crashed recently. Its easier than taking your pc with you.
2007-02-09 11:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by martin m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u must modify in BIOS the boot up procedure .. it must be on quick boot .. and u must tell the bios what hard drives u have .. if the computer is on auto detect it will slow down at boot .. and third thing that u should check is that HDD's are on same IDE ribbon .. if they are .. u should move the drive u added on a second ribbon
2007-02-09 11:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by dark a 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i run 2 you need one as master one as slave and need to wipe old hard drive and start again as it needs to sort out boot device so when you turn on it gives you option which one to open
2007-02-09 20:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much space on on those hard drives maybe that's the prob?
2007-02-09 11:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.majorgeeks.com
best support site on the web, free too
2007-02-09 11:25:14 · answer #7 · answered by dandarlene 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get more ram and a bigger processor
2007-02-12 22:41:06 · answer #8 · answered by shmee4 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See:
http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/5C1042F392BFB91DCA25707E001401EF
it might help
2007-02-09 11:28:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is your drive NTFS or FAT32?
2007-02-09 11:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋