Issues after installing new hard drive.

[Most Valuable Primate]

Here is the info on my computer: AMD 3000+, 1 GB DDR RAM, NVidia 4000 MX
Card, Hauppauge PVR 250, K8T Neo Mother Board, 80 GB + 120 GB Hard Drive
Running WinXP Home with SP2 and completely updated. The OS is on the 80 GB
drive and I have had no significant problems with this computer. I swapped
out the 120 GB drive for a 300 GB drive (partitioned in 2 basically equaly
drives that was formatted with the MaxBlast utility). The BIOS and Windows
is recognizing the drive no problem. Since doing so the following issues
have come up:

1. Very long boot up about 50% of the time. The BIOS and POST part is OK,
then it goes to the Windows logo which is fine but it will hang on a blank
screen for over 5 minutes before going to the windows blue screen that says
its loading personal settings which is slower than it was.

2. When using Windows Explorer to move files onto the new drive the
computer will hang completely or be very slow.

3. Media files are choppy or will hang the system as well.

Please note as previously said there were no problems before the dirves were
swapped and the only change made was the drive swap(unless maybe an
automatic update).

Any help would be great on this. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Was the old drive a SATA and the new one an IDE? that is was the OLD drive
hooked up via the red cable with the small end and is the new hooked up with
a flat ribbon cable?
If your computer is an SATA and the Hard drive is an IDE, it is slow
compared to SATA, now if you took a IDE drive and added a SATA converter to
it, it will make it VERY slow.
The 80 Gig is most definetely a IDE and I would guess the 300 is a SATA.

The jumper on the 80 gig if it is an IDE should be in MASTER, only if the
300 is a SATA, if the 300 is a IDE and 80 is an IDE, the 80 is in MASTER and
the 300 is in SLAVE, if the 80 is a SATA and the 300 is an IDE then the 300
should be in MASTER and there is NO jumper on a SATA. If they are both SATAs,
try pluging the 300 into a different recipticle.

 

[Most Valuable Primate]

No, both drives are IDE. The 300 GB is the slave as was the 120 GB.

The speed issues go beyond the speed differences between SATA/IDE. It is
slow to the point of completely hanging the system.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Please check Event Viewer for Warning / Error Reports in the System
and Application logs for the last boot and post copies.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right click on
the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties. Hardware,
Device Manager. If yes what is the Device Error code?

Try Start, Run, type "sigverif.exe" without quotes and hit OK. What drivers
are listed as unsigned? Disregard those which are not checked.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[Most Valuable Primate]

I am thinking this error message is the problem:


The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. event 9



but this one is coming up as well:





Windows saved user Name\name registry while an application or service was
still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no
longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring
the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

What are the complete Error Reports?

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click
on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button
resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. This
will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report complete with links
into the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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