Could it possibly be something different? Please note, these tests, and noticing a high use of the interrupt process, were run remotely if that makes a difference.
Hard drive is failing 1 fyi Sorry for not posting in a while, it's marching season and our band is struggling with performance. I did a lot of research on the computer the other day and found an article on certain ways a CPU reads information from HDDs.
Changing this to DMR fixed my speed issues. Thank you all for all of your help. I consider my problem fixed as I know now what is happening, however, for all the techies, I have one last question. If I were to copy my C drive windows installation drive exactly file to file over onto another new drive, then booting that new drive as my master after taking out the bad drive, will there be any problems with windows or installations? I assume not since it should be an exact copy.
Also do I need a good program for doing that? You need to create an exact disk image copy also called disk "cloning". Here;s one of a few reasons why: Some Windows system files must be located on specific sectors on the disk to be bootable.
Sorry for the double post about just to make sure you see p. You may need to reactivate Windows when you copy the HD. You can also get your Windows keys from old drive with magic jelly bean. You will possibly find SATA is not supported by your board - it is a little squarish connector.
Many new discs and this is quite popular with retail replacement discs come with a little utility designed to simply clone your old drive to a the new one and then boot off the new one.
In other words replacing a HDD can be very easy. Provided it can be read at all, of course. In your case, there may be greater or lesser parts of the OS unable to read. It is not so easy to change the drive type i. Hence a reinstall is always required in that case, although it can be a 're-install in place' if you have the right CD. In your position, my recommendation would be a re-install to a SATA drive if supported - hopefully you have a full install CD, or can borrow one.
I had the same problem and realized it was simply because my installation of XP was on one of two hard disks and the BIOS was set up to boot first from the one that didn't have the XP installation.
Hope this helps! You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads A. Hardware PC turns on, but no display. No power to mouse and keyboard. Aer0Blitz Jun 27, Ask a Question. Replies 3 Views 2K. Nov 17, wiki In that case, you'll need to disable the option for automatically restarting on system failure. When Windows XP begins to boot up and you see the message Please select the operating system to start or hear the single beep, press [F8] to display the Windows Advanced Options Menu.
Now, Windows XP will hang up when it encounters the error and with any luck, it will display a stop message you can use to diagnose the problem. If you can't seem to repair a Windows XP system that won't boot and you have a recent backup, you can restore the system from the backup media. The method you use to restore the system will depend on what backup utility you used, so you'll need to follow the utility's instructions on how to perform a restore operation.
If you can't repair a Windows XP system that won't boot and you don't have a recent backup, you can perform an in-place upgrade. Doing so reinstalls the operating system into the same folder, just as if you were upgrading from one version of Windows to another. An in-place upgrade will usually solve most, if not all, Windows boot problems.
This screen will prompt you to press R to repair the selected installation or to press [Esc] to install a fresh copy of Windows XP.
In this case, initiating a repair operation is synonymous with performing an in-place upgrade, so you'll need to press R. When you do so, Setup will examine the disk drives in the system. It will then begin performing the in-place upgrade.
Keep in mind that after you perform an in-place upgrade or repair installation, you must reinstall all updates to Windows. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry. Automatically sign up today! Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer.
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Here's how: Open a Command Prompt window. Type the following command: Systeminfo Find "Up Time". Editor's Picks. Is what you have all being used? Look at the Task Manager Performance tab for that info. I just did a wipe and restore via Acronis. No change I suspect that there is a problem in the Windows OS itself. I don't know anything about "swapping" thing. I may get again and try once more. I will log off here for now. I will most likely try the suggestions above and see what happens.
Changes are I may ultimately end up probably doing a clean install again. Wish me luck. I'm back and got some update. For anyone following this I have corrected the problem. As to exactly what was messed up I don't know.
Before the repair the average boot time was at least 5 minutes or more. Two things I need to do next! I don't need all the apps and stuff. I was really, really, really hoping that I didn't have to do a "clean" install.
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