QUOTE(blr_p @ May 27 2006, 12:11 PM) [snapback]52426[/snapback]
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.
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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
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using ghost is fine, but have win98 on first partition of
samsung(40gb)-primary drive
and win xp on logical disk (D drive).
so, the drive letter changing would matter or not? or edit win98 boot.ini???
QUOTE(blr_p @ May 27 2006, 12:11 PM) [snapback]52426[/snapback]
its surprising that your windows partition is the slowest of all the other paritions on the same HD.
I'm not so impressed with your
seagate performance, it should be close to double if your PC is able to handle UDMA-5.
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well, if u have 5mins(or even less) of free time, why not give pcpitstop.com a try and post the result here!
just for comparison sake!
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transfer rate for seagate shud be >54MB/s ?????????????