Hard drive really slow after upgrade to Win2k

[ElDonAntonio]

hey guys!

I upgraded my Win95 machine to Win2k, and my hard drive seems really sluggish. Granted it is a relatively old system, a Dell Dimension XPS H266 w/ Maxtor 8700A8, but it used to be much snappier than this. I just ran Nero, and it did a reading benchmark of MP3 files and it seems to be reading from the HD a 9X (1.4 MB/sec). If this is my sustained transfer rate, it's pitiful.
I've checked in the device manager, everything seems ok, Primary IDE controller is set to DMA if available...

Anyone with possible solutions (besides upgrading, which I will do soon) or suggestions for good hard drive benchmarking tools?

edit: I ran Winbench 99 on my system and got this:

Business Disk WinMark: 2329
High-End Disk WinMark: 6520


THanks!
Antoine

 

[AndyHui]

Bring up a command prompt and enter the command diskperf -n. This will disable Disk IO Transaction logging and reduce some of the overhead burden on your hard drive.

Win2K can be sluggish with insufficient RAM, especially if you have less than 128MB.