Slow system start on win2k

[Marktait 0]

i recently upgrading the whole of my computer

from :

 

Jetway 542BX M/Board

AMDK6/2 500

128MB PC100 RAM

50x CDRom

4x4x24 Mitsumi writer

8MB AGP Savage 3DCard

Voodoo1 6MB

56k Modem Rockwell V.90

Maxtor 17GB 5400RPM

3DSound Card

 

To :

 

Gigabyte 71XE4

AMDK7 1.2GHz Thunderbird

512MB PC133 RAM

40x Compaq CDRom

36x Creative CDRom

16x10x40x LiteOn Writer

64MB NVidia GeFore2MX

56K Modem Ambient V.92

40GB Seagate ATA100 5400RPM

Hauppage WinTV

Creative 128PCI Sound

 

When loading Win2k SP2 with exactly the same size partition as the old PC, its a hell of a lot slower.Iv updated all the drivers for the board,etc and still no difference.Any ideas?

 

Thanx

 

[Marktait 0]

Yes but i did have SP2 previously on the older 500Mhz Machine.

[reversing_drive 0]

OK I don't know much (Technical Detail that is... )

But i know Win2K has A LOT of Disk Activity during Startup.

 

Now the significant difference between your two systems i see here i relation to that aspect is the size of your HD.

 

Now i'm not sure if Win2K checks the entire disk during bootup, or if so, what it scans the disks for. I doubt it checks the entire disk for errors every boot, though there may be other routine processes that require scanning the HD for info of some sort or other, indexing service:confused ;(

 

Anyway, that is the only possibility i can think of

 

In that case maybe an upgrade from 5400rpm to 7200rpm is due... it seems to be the bottle neck to me.

 

Cheers,

 

PS: What File system due you use for most of your partitions. If you use NTFS on all your partitions, then it could be the volume information, MFT ect.. being updated/verified every boot. NTFS keeps all kinds of records on all the files ect.. such as security, file info(indexing service) ect..

[GTwannabe 0]

Hmmm... I've got 512MB RAM, and I have very little disk activity on boot

[yakkob 0]

When you said you upgraded all the mobo drivers etc..

 

Did you mean you just plonked your HD into your new machine????

If so, you really need to format and reinstall everything again.

That should quicken everything up no end.

[Marktait 0]

No this was a complete new system. had nothing in from the old one