New HD but now Windows loads VERY SLOW!

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited December 2003 in Hardware
I just got a new 120 GB Seagate and exchanged it with my 80 seagate in my main rig, I put the 80 in my old one ( replacing a stock 30 gb that came with the comp). This 80 gb has 8 mb cache and is much quieter and smoother, is only 2 months old, it also is fine when windows 98se has already booted, but during the boot process it is slow! it takes about 2 minutes to load completely (60 sec 98se splash screen, 15 sec black screen with ticker, slow loading desktop. This replaced the windows 98se being on my 40 gig WD 2mb cache hd not the crappy 30. I did a clean install of the os since it was not cooperating with me switching the harddrive and cloning stuff. It used to take maybe 8 seconds on the splash screen at most, 4 seconds on the black screen, and a little faster on the desktop loading for a total well under the minute mark total.


Does anybody know why this could be happening, oh by the way, both Norton and Partition Magic said this drive has errors like parameter errors or something after I reformatted it, but I tried twice and same deal, I think I will try again now so I will be temporarly gone for a couple hours probably,

Comments

  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    The paramter errors you mention aren't just an "oh btw"... hard drives shouldn't have any. Check your BIOS and make sure it's being detected and initialized correctly.

    If you're darn sure everything is set correctly, does the hard drive make normal noises with no long delays inbetween? Repeated scratching/mechanical noises (like, constant 1-2-3-4 scratching sounds), or no noises at all?

    Generally bootups can be stalled when network adapters try to retrieve an IP address from DHCP and cannot (they timeout after 60 seconds or so).
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited December 2003
    Versello hit on many of the best points/suggestions.

    You'll also need to be sure the drive's running DMA (since windows 98 doesn't do this automatically).

    My first guess was a networking problem as well.
  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by stoopid
    You'll also need to be sure the drive's running DMA (since windows 98 doesn't do this automatically).

    Or get rid of that god-forsaken OS :D:D
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited December 2003
    Or get rid of that god-forsaken OS

    *ditto* :D
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited December 2003
    its fixed, i tried reinstalling several times and found out it was one of the network cards, the original one that came with the computer. I was trying to get it to work, but no success.


    and... if I get rid of this godforesaken os than what os should I use to play the games I like? I hope you aren't talking about ME, unless you think that is better than 98, which I highly dout, and 2K and XP are instantly out of the competition, and obviously 95 as well (which I don't even have or will ever get anyway).
  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by yagga
    and... if I get rid of this godforesaken os than what os should I use to play the games I like? I hope you aren't talking about ME, unless you think that is better than 98, which I highly dout, and 2K and XP are instantly out of the competition, and obviously 95 as well (which I don't even have or will ever get anyway).

    No, I am not talking about ME. That's an insult! ME is just a giant problem itself.

    Why is 2k or XP out of the question? No compatability with yer games?
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited December 2003
    Xp has been great on all my new and old games :)
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited December 2003
    yes, compatability problems, completely unfixable, gauranteed.
  • HackingGuruHackingGuru
    edited December 2003
    Yagga, I dont know whats wrong with you but Windows XP works fine, it plays CS (OLD) Startcarft (OLD) C&C (OLD) games and I dont think it casuses any problems. How about you go and give it a try ;) do us all a favor hehe
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited December 2003
    thats the thing, I have it, i've tried it, I've tried fixing it, I've tried it on different computers, absolutely no luck, but if it did work you could bet on it that i would throw away 98!
  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by yagga
    its fixed, i tried reinstalling several times and found out it was one of the network cards, the original one that came with the computer. I was trying to get it to work, but no success.


    and... if I get rid of this godforesaken os than what os should I use to play the games I like? I hope you aren't talking about ME, unless you think that is better than 98, which I highly dout, and 2K and XP are instantly out of the competition, and obviously 95 as well (which I don't even have or will ever get anyway).

    What exactly was wrong with it?...
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