As u may have seen i was having some problems with PC :D
which appear to be fine now

my only other query is the speed which my PC loads now

takes like 5x longer than it use to

loaded fast on IBM Deathstar 13.6Gb HDD

loads slow on new Western Digital 80Gb 8Mb cache


Is that just how the drive works? or have i got something wrong

Hope someone has some experience with them :D

ta guys

run bootvis


where is it slow? windows loading time or POST loading time? cus if its windows then its windows if its POST then its your drive

it detects the drives immediately at POST

then the next screen where u normally just see a flash of ur IRQ's etc ... i can read it for like 10secs

then the loading screen with the grey blocks ...

takes like 10secs before the first block appears ... then another 15 or more for it to reach the end

then like another 20 or more secs to load the win2k loading bar


my old PC use to finish the win2k loading screen like 20secs after POST

meh


im gonna format after work tomorrow anyway ...

oh yeah .. can how partitions are setup affect it?

i have the WD on IDE1, first on cable
Barracudda on IDE1, 2nd on cable

i partitioned 10gb off for windows and progs etc (off the WD) .. then left 70gb as whateva

barra is one big 80gb chunk

in windows the drive letters came up as

C:/ Barracudda 80Gb partition -logical
E:/ 10gb partition -primary
F:/ 70gb partition -logical

Is that how the logical and primary should be setup?

I would have assumed being the first logical partition, on first IDE .. that the 10gb would have been C;/ drive

Think thats all i wanted to asked :D

any help greatly appreciated =)

File system error. Reformat. and dont quick format the drived. Load XP. its better for your system :P

also, check for chipset (ATA) drivers

Load XP. its better for your system :P

Win2k.

shouldn't C drive be the 10gig windows partition? I think you've got the boot sector on the baracuda and the system drive is the WD, so the computer asks the bara for the sector where windows is on the WD. how gay.