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by chenjoey

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I'm running Win2000 and I've just upgraded my hard drive to a WD 100ATA 60GB. My motherboard is a Asus K7M with 66 ATA support running 700MZ AMD processor with 394 SDRAM. I have 5 partitions of roughly 12 gb in each partition. My previous HD was a IBM 66ATA 20GB. When I log into Windows, it takes over 3 minutes for my machine to startup. With my old drive it only took a couple of seconds. Note, only Windows is on the machine right now. No other software is loaded. Likewise when I click on My Computer or when I try to launch Explorer, the computer takes forever to process (a little over a minute). Is this normal for a large hard drive? If it is, is there a way to speed it up?

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by thechas

No, this is not normal.

Is the WD the only drive on the IDE channel?

If so, you may want to remove the jumper from the master/slave configuration block.
WD drives do not work well as the only drive with any jumper installed.

by chenjoey

There is also another WD drive running as slave on that particular IDE channel. The jumpers are correctly set.

by serg meister

That second drive is it running at 7200RPM?
If it is only running at 5400RPM that will the cause the main drive to runat the slower speed of 5400rpm. way to check if it is the second drive is to simply disconect it.
Have you Defragmented recently?
Also what FAT system are you using (did you opt for the FAT32 instead of the default NTFS) FAT32 is not very efficient with partitions larger than 8Gig??
Good luck

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