Windows XP slow, sluggish, and (sometimes) unresponsive

[Guest]

I recently added a 300 Gb hdd and partitioned it into three 100 Gb partitions
to hold WinXP in one, Linux in another, with the third being a backup drive
for both (FAT32). Linux runs fine but WinXP has become slow, sluggish, and
sometimes totally unresponsive for _several_ minutes. I installed WinXP
first, then Linux - - Linux has installed it's own bootloader, which has
worked fine with WinXP in the past. WinXP reports it cannot read the 3rd
partition, that there is something wrong with it and that I need to format
it. Problem is, WinXP won't allow me to format it as FAT32, it wants to
always format it using NTFS. Is this partition problem causing my WinXP to
be slow, sluggish, and (sometimes) unresponsive? If not, how can I check to
see what is doing this? I've tried Fix-It Utilities 6 Professional and Norton
Utilities (in SystemWorks 2005) and neither can find / fix the problem(s).
Could it be a problem with WinXP's boot table or FAT ... if so, wouldn't that
show up somewhere?

Thanks ya'll,
James

 

[Gerry Cornell]

You cannot use Windows XP to format partitions as FAT32 where the
size of the partition is over 32 gb. Why does it have to be FAT32?
To format a disk as FAT32 you may be able to do it using a Disk
Utility provided by the Disk Manufacturer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[nicenswift]

I recently added a 300 Gb hdd and partitioned it into three 100 Gb partitions
to hold WinXP in one, Linux in another, with the third being a backup drive
for both (FAT32). Linux runs fine but WinXP has become slow, sluggish, and
sometimes totally unresponsive for _several_ minutes. I installed WinXP
first, then Linux - - Linux has installed it's own bootloader, which has
worked fine with WinXP in the past. WinXP reports it cannot read the 3rd
partition, that there is something wrong with it and that I need to format
it. Problem is, WinXP won't allow me to format it as FAT32, it wants to
always format it using NTFS. Is this partition problem causing my WinXP to
be slow, sluggish, and (sometimes) unresponsive? If not, how can I check to
see what is doing this? I've tried Fix-It Utilities 6 Professional and Norton
Utilities (in SystemWorks 2005) and neither can find / fix the problem(s).
Could it be a problem with WinXP's boot table or FAT ... if so, wouldn't that
show up somewhere?

Thanks ya'll,
James

There are 2 easy to follow guides to finding out why XP is slower than
usual on this blog

http://swift-tips.blogspot.com

Hope it helps

Labeled XP speedup Guide 1 & 2

 

[Guest]

TRY USING CHECKDISK, USE THE DEFRAG UTILITY AND SCAN FIRST, THEN TRY DISK
CLEANUP, AND TRY TO COMPRESS THE DRIVE TO SAVE SPACE