Renaming hard drives

[Jim Stecher]

My computer has a P2.66GHz CPU, 1.5G of RAM, and 440G of
hard drive in two 120G drives and one 200G drive. The
boot drive is 120G and is labelled 1. The second 120G
drive is 2, And the 200G is 0. These are in a non-striped
RAID array. Each is "seen" as a separate drive.
My problem is one of speed. When I added the 200G drive,
my processing speed dropped tremendously.

Is there anything I can do to regain the speed?

Thanks for any help.
Jim Stecher

 

[Stecher]

D. Currie:
Thanks for the responce. I am using the RAID ports (2) to
plug in my hard drives (capacity is 4). The drives are
not RAID configured. When only the two 120G drives were
installed everything ran well, with little or no waiting
to open, for instance, the programs list through the
START menu. Now, with the 200G also installed, a 20 +
second wait is the norm. Other than installing the new
drive, and configuring the FS to NTFS. nothing else was
done.

Jim

 

[D.Currie]

Run the manufacturer's diagnostics on the drive and see what comes up. A bad
drive can bring a system to a crawl. Other than that, it might be a
configuration issue of some sort with the motherboard, or a bad cable,
maybe.

Which drive did you change to NTFS.

 

[Stecher]

All of my drives are NTFS. The 200G came configured as
FAT32, so I reconfiged it to NTFS, but the speed was down
before that.