Smartdrive

[Peggy]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me anything about smartdrive. I have just
installed windows server 2003 on my machine and it is
taking an age. It asked b 4 I started the install if I
had smartdrive to which i answered no.

What is this application and how can I get it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[David H. Lipman]

It's a disk caching application for Win9x platforms. There is ZERO need for it in WinXP and
won't work with NT based systems anyway.

Dave




| Hi All,
|
| Can anyone tell me anything about smartdrive. I have just
| installed windows server 2003 on my machine and it is
| taking an age. It asked b 4 I started the install if I
| had smartdrive to which i answered no.
|
| What is this application and how can I get it?
|
| Thanks in advance.

 

[CS]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me anything about smartdrive. I have just
installed windows server 2003 on my machine and it is
taking an age. It asked b 4 I started the install if I
had smartdrive to which i answered no.

What is this application and how can I get it?

Thanks in advance.

It's a DOS disk caching program. Once you've already installed WS
2003, you no longer need Smartdrive. It's only used to speed up the
installation when you install from DOS. If you installed WS 2003 from
WS 2000 as an upgrade, you wouldn't need Smartdrive.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

If you have booted up into real DOS and try to install Windows XP from
there, smartdrive is needed. If not used, the install may take hours. With
smartdrive, about 45 minutes.

It is only needed under the above conditions.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Alex Nichol]

Can anyone tell me anything about smartdrive. I have just
installed windows server 2003 on my machine and it is
taking an age. It asked b 4 I started the install if I
had smartdrive to which i answered no.

It is a DOS tool for caching files from hard disk. If you are doing an
install from a DOS floppy, running the WINNT under DOS, then running
smartdrv first speeds things up a lot. But why install that way, rather
than booting the CD?