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new hdd
18-01-2014 8:20 PM
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Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 8:35 PM
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Check it in Device Manager, under the appropriate IDE controller. Sorry I can't be more specific, but I don't have an XP system to hand at the moment.
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 8:39 PM
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D/load & install the free malwarebytes antimalware
Also uninstall any redundant programs that are no longer used
See what Items are running on startup and turn off what you reasonably can in Msconfig
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:27 PM
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York.
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:29 PM
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The system was already optimised via msconfig and I gave it a clean up before cloning, but thanks anyway. I did notice the system refused to boot when I first connected the new drive and after cloning when I removed the old drive and put it back together it refused to boot from the new drive even though it had booted from it previously. Needed to swap which ide connector I was using on the ide cable
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:30 PM
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Athlon 2400xp cpu. Its an old system
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:35 PM
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Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:36 PM
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Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:40 PM
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The reason the disk is so active will be the swap file. It will be constantly accessing it on the disk rather than loading it into memory
My old XP box had 4gig and the swap file was held in memory!
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Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 9:41 PM
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Some random thoughts...
Is the jumper [ if there ] on the new HDD set as Master?
You are using an Ultra ATA133 IDE cable - it's made from 80 wires not 40?
The HDD is plugged into the last plug on the IDE cable? - that's the master
Is the Volume defined as Primary and Bootable?
Have you forced XP to run check disc [ chkdsk /f ] on bootup on the volume? That might expose any bad sectors/clusters.
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 10:03 PM
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Jumper is set to master.
Not a clue if its an ultraata 133 cable. Will check
Its on the middle connection. The last one worked during the clone but the new drive caused the system to fail to boot first time. When reassembled after clone it saw the drive on that connection but refused to boot from it.
Volume is bootable and primary
Will run a chkdsk
Thanks for the thoughts
Re: new hdd
18-01-2014 10:39 PM
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Maybe, maybe not. I'd run Task manager and see how much memory is in use, and how big the swap file is before making any diagnosis.
Quote from: Thunderclap 1gig is more than enough.
Also, having "cloned" it did you expand the partition to use the new space.
Re: new hdd
19-01-2014 8:58 AM
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You could always try a 'Windows Safe Mode' boot and see how quick comes up?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/boot_failsafe.mspx?mf...
Re: new hdd
19-01-2014 9:07 AM
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Re: new hdd
19-01-2014 9:27 AM
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On the Left, a hi-density IDE cable and on the right, the older and slower style.
++++ I should add - check the Motherboard can supprt the faster mode
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