Very slow system (due to large harddisk!?)

[Radu]

I have a system using a 160GB Seagate drive (3 8GB
partitions - first 2 NTFS, 3rd FAT32 - and another NTFS
partition with the rest of the drive capacity - aprox
126GB). The drive is connected through a Promise Ultra
100TX card.

Recently, my XP system is coming to a crawl a short time
after booting up (and it's a P4 2.8 GHz machine).

AT first I suspected some software issue, so I reimaged my
machine to a state that was working great a couple of
months back. Unfortunately, I have the same problem.

The only other thing I can think of is that this might
have something to do with the big harddrive. Recently, the
amount of data has surpassed 128GB on the drive (I only
have some 21 GB free on the big partition), so I am
wondering if this can explain the issue.

Please note that Win2000 (which I have installed on
another partition on the big harddrive) works just fine.
It's just XP that has these probems.

Any idea would be welcome.

Thanks,
Radu

 

[Guest]

How much space is available on the C drive partition?
How much RAM do you have? You should have at least 256mb
if not a full 512mb. Have you done a defrag on all
partitions? You might try running Adaware 6 or Spybot S&D?

-David

 

[Radu]

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-----Original Message-----
How much space is available on the C drive partition?
8GB

How much RAM do you have? You should have at least 256mb
if not a full 512mb.

I have 1GB

Have you done a defrag on all
partitions?

No, but I just reimaged the System partition...

You might try running Adaware 6 or Spybot S&D?

I will do that.

P.S. I can't even begin to tell you how slow the system
becomes. At first I thought it was frozen.