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by whittenr

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I have windows me on my system

the message i receive.

drive x is using an ms-dos compatibility mode file
system on one drive, that drive is using an ms-dos
compatibility (real mode driver) which might reduce that drives performance.

this is the message i receive when booting up in safe mode (in system performance). My computer is
a xp2000 with 512 mgs of ram, windows me,and a 30
gig hardrive. it is driving me buggy for the speed is so slow.

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by dmiles

To force Windows to attempt to reinitialize the protected-mode IDE driver you'll have to remove the noide entry from the registry:

Start the Registry Editor
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ VxD \ IOS
Delete the NoIDE entry
Search your registry for BAD_IDE (You can Search the registry by pressing F3 while working in the registry editor.
Delete any BAD_IDE values you find
After you update the registry, restart Windows. Windows will then attempt to initialize the protected-mode driver for the controller. If no problems are encountered, the file system and virtual memory will operate in 32-bit mode, and Device Manager will not display an exclamation point in a yellow circle for the IDE channels.

If the protected-mode driver is not initialized properly, an error message will be displayed and the NoIDE registry entry will be re-created.

Also see the following Microsoft KB articles
Q130179
Q151911
Q175269

by dazza_

Why are you booting in Safe Mode?
If you run in Normal Mode, the protected mode driver should be active.
Try booting into Normal Mode and checking System Performance again

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