Can you be a little more help.
The original thread is no longer online, once a message was read it's deleted or
somehow impossible to re-read
Well, if you post, then you should revisit the ng regularly to check
for replies. We do get fed up with folks who drop posts in newsgroups
they don't read (as in "please email me, I can't be bothered to read
newsgroups") or those who dip into newsgroups via some awful web
interface, expect replies within minutes, and spawn new threads asking
the same Q again and again without ever checking for answers.
Yes, news servers do purge "old" messages - but you can use dejanews
to look further back in history than the news server's retention time.
I keep all messages I've sent, but the incoming messages also purge
off after a while. Trying to find an old post - either in my outbox
of thousands of messages, or in the newsgroup stashes - is hard work
that I'm rather disinclined to do.
Because you started a new thread, rather that replied to the one you
started previously, I don't even know what subject line to look for.
But, it's your lucky day...
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How did you "move"? Something like Ghost or BING image?
If so, look at the hidden C:\BOOT.INI file and see if your XP
partition is defined using scsi() rather than multi() syntax.
If that is the case, research the problem first rather than simply
changing the syntax to see if that will fix it! Also, NT (such as XP)
may add controller-specific drivers in C:\ using a standard driver
name for ease of early loading. If removing the SCSI card causes the
PC to not boot XP (even if nothing's "on" the SCSI), suspect this.
Once again, more research is needed. Normally these things are set up
when the OS is first installed (a "repair" or over-old install may
inherit and re-use the bad settings) so retro-fitting changes later
may turn out to be something of a black art.</paste>
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....and today's follow-up in the same (original) thread:
The BOOT.INI file is as follow:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINSOWS="Microsoft XP Professional"
/fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
OK, that's using multi() syntax that should be fine for xIDE.
As for the SCSI controller, it's still in the computer since I keep using it, no
sense wasting perfectly good fast HDD
;-)
ANd I used Partition Magic to move the whole thing to a bigger partition
Ah. One thing I'd worry about is whether partition alignment caused
an NTFS volume to use 512-byte clusters, which will be excruciatingly
slow and more prone to frag, data loss etc. Expect a ChkDsk or defrag
to take ages (as in days rather than an hour or few).
BING has a clue to avoid this, but PM - dunno.
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Not sure if that's your problem, or someone else with a very similar
problem (i.e. SCSI -> xIDE scrapeover, now very slow).
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