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re: Slow Startup and degraded performance after disk crash
Friday, October 31, 2003 at 9:20 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(2 messages posted)
I have found out what caused this problem. When Disk 2 crashed Windows XP changed
the Primary IDE Channel Transfer Mode from Ultra DMA to PIO.
To get XP to revert back to UDMA I had to poke the registry.
The following link describes how http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6645
On Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 6:51 am, Steve wrote:
>I am running Windows XP Pro on a PC with 2 disk drives. Disk 1 (40GB) contained
the
>Operating System and most installed software. Disk 2 (60Gb) contained data.
>
>I attempted to boot the machine a few days ago and it was making a strange noise
>(a tick tocking sound) and failed to recognise Disk 2. This sound was coming from
>Disk 2.
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>I disconnected the power and data cable from Disk 2 and tried booting again. Although
>it booted successfully, it took about 60 seconds longer than usual. Most of this
>extra time spent displaying the Windows XP logo and progress bar. It still does
this
>every time I boot. Also, after booting it feels like something is running in the
>background and periodically hogging all system resources. This is most noticable
>when playing sounds, they get very distorted.
>
>I have run a full virus system scan with up-to-date signature files. No viruses
were
>found. I have also run Ad-aware and it only found a few annoying cookies.
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>I cleaned the registry to remove all invalid paths.
>
>I have since installed a new Disk Drive as disk 2, and partioned it and formated
>it exactly the same as the previous disk.
>
>The slow startup and degraded performance are still a problem.
>
>Has anyone got any other ideas ?
>
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