Windows Extremely slow

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Martin Racette

Hi,

I move my XP Pro installation to a new bigger HDD, and since the system is
extremely slow. I used DriveImage to do the move from the old to the new,
everything worked fine except for the previously mentioned problem

I did a defragmentation and it did not helped

Any help or advice will be most welcome

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
Yes it is perfectly detected and listed

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
A clone, with a IDE of 60Gb(OS, and programs and another of 200Gb (for data
only), and 4 x 9.1Gb SCSI Ultra2

CPU Athlon XP 2200
RAM 1Gb PC2100 DDR

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
Hi Martin,

There was an issue with XP and cluster sizes under certain
circumstances, which led to poor performance. If you cloned a small
Hdd to a large one, perhaps it kept the 512k cluster sizes (NTFS
only).

If the Hdd is Fat32, then this would give similar problems e.g.
breaking the built-in limit (130Gbish?). Maybe converting it to NTFS
would affect a cure?

Andy.
 
That is not really an option since there is too many settings and applications
to reset to make them work

If there is any other suggestion, beside re-install the whole system.

I have over 20 users to reconfigure with all applicable permissions, etc... If I
have to re-install, I'm better of throwing the whole system to the trash and
forget computer for the reminder of my life.

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Thank you in Advance

Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
What size of cluster would you suggest for a 30Gb HDD, I moved the system from a
9.1Gb

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Merci a l'Avance

Martin
 
You might also do a repair installation on the new drive. You would most
likely not lose your data, but will have to do the applicable updates.

Ed
 
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