QUOTE(lokesh18 @ May 27 2006, 10:08 AM) [snapback]52415[/snapback]
well chked bios:
primary ide master:
samsung 40gb (5400rpm i think
🙂 )
primary ide slave:
seagate 80gb( 7200rpm)---for storage purpose
secondary ide master: cd-riter
secondary ide slave: dvd-rom
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You OS is installed on the slower drive, should have moved it when u got the 80GB one. Anyway, if you go in for a larger drive make sure you shift the OS to the fastest drive which will most likely be a 7200RPM drive. To transfer your OS, it is very simple if you had norton/symantec ghost , make image of OS partition and save on the 80GB HD and then restore from it to the new dirve. Done! I'm not aware of any other free program that can do similar, i discovered ghost many yrs ago and did not bother to look for an alternative.
There is no need to disconnect the power cable, since your optical storage is on a different channel compared to the HDs. I suggested it as i was not sure whether you had mixed both HD+optical on each channel and as a quick way to elliminate them during testing.
For future reference, you usually disconnect the units power cable before switching the PC on, there is nothing to worry about if you do it this way. Obviously don't touch it when the PC is on.
QUOTE(lokesh18 @ May 27 2006, 10:08 AM) [snapback]52415[/snapback]
wat is IAA?(application accele?)
latest stats from pcpitstop:
samsung 40gb: the partition where win Xp is installed(D: drive) = 14MB/s
other partitions on this(samsung) showed 22MB/sec and 16MB/s
🙁
while the seagate partitions showed a good 50MB/sec( average of 51,49,50)
will defrag and
microsoft bootvis help?
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IAA =
Intel App Accelerator
its surprising that your
windows partition is the slowest of all the other paritions on the same HD.
Is windows installed on the First paritition of that drive ?
The first partition is usually slighlty faster than the rest since you are reading from the outer area of the drive. Understand here, when i speak about fast, i'm talking about time it takes to read anything off the hD, once that's done, its your CPU & memory that take over from there. Faster drives, generally speaking means OS+apps load slightly faster *NOT* that once loaded they will run faster
😉
I'm not so impressed with your seagate performance, it should be close to double if your PC is able to handle UDMA-5.