re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 3:37 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23824 messages posted)
SATA - PATA swap: No
Defrag was a waste of time, it never fixes severe slow downs.
On Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 9:17 pm, raminder singh wrote:
>Thank you again.
>
>I did not realize that the swap file was the same as the paging file! I had moved
>the paging file following the advice about event 11 I found in some webpage a couple
>of days ago. It did not improve matters.
>
>I am in a bit of a bind because my machine is under warranty (3 years) and 2 years
>of the warranty are still to go. So I do not wish to mess with the hardware. And
>I cannot demand the services of a service engineer because the machine does run,
>and the disk check utility declares that the HDD is fine! However, I inspected the
>insides of the box and found that there is place for but one hard disk -- the one
>in use -- and there are no other devices on the chain. There is also a combo DVD
>reader on the second IDE channel, which I can disconnect to see if it helps. If
it
>does, I will report back.
>
>I do have a spare hard disk, but it is a PATA, and the one in place is a SATA. I
>don't know whether the image of the SATA drive will work if restored to a PATA drive.
>When I have mustered the courage, I could try! Meanwhile I will just wait for the
>fault to become worse. If it does, I can try a repair install. I can live with the
>system in its present state.
>
>
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