Hi,
My machine was running fine until I decided to use Partition Magic 7.0 under Windows 2000 to resize my primary partition. I shrunk one of the logical drives and moved the free space from the extended partition and added it to the primary partition - problem solved!! Or so I thought. The machine then started to run very slowly and it took a while to start Windows 2000 up!
To solve this problem, I decided to do a full reinstall - not really necessary but my computer was getting cluttered - before the reinstall my machine was setup with Win98 and Win2000 dual boot with Win98 on drive C:, storage and stuff on Drive D: (2nd Drive) and Win2000 on drive E: (2nd partition on 1st drive).
I went into FDISK and totally cleaned it. I removed ALL partitions added a new primary partition and an extended partition with two logical partitions in it. I then went to format the drive after exiting FDISK and rebooting. Drive C: would not pass 0%, in any Windows installation, or as a format from the DOS prompt. The other drives on the same disk would format - even though they did seem slow, but it is a 40GB drive so I was expecting it to take a long time. The 'Verifying Drive Integrity' also seemed very slow under FDISK when I was creating the first partition but seemed to dramatically speed up afterwards, but I assume this was because it had less drive to verify!??! I also performed this command 'FDISK /CMBR 1' to format the Master Boot Record. This did not help!!
Following this, I created a set of Partition Magic boot disks on another PC. When booted of these I was able to wipe the partition table and create a completely new one and then format the drives under partition magic. This allowed me to see the drives under a Windows 2000 installation and I did not need to reformat the drive to install Windows 2000. Windows 2000 appeared to install with no problems but when I booted up Windows 2000 for the first time, it was very very slow. My computer usually boots up in 1 minute - it is now taking 3 or 4 minutes and the HDD light on the front of the case appears to be permanently on the search for drivers for my devices also proved a very time consuming process!!! Also, it gets beyond a jooke when I log into Windows 2000 and I have to wait about 5 seconds for my icons to load their images!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to admit I am dumbfounded with this problem - no hardware has been touched in anyway, the case has not even moved 1 inch so I sincerely doubt any hardware has been damaged. The only solution I can think of is that the drive was used for dual booting and is not now so maybe some part of the MBR still has a problem (as I gather the 'FDISK /CMBR 1' command does not format all of the MBR).
Does anyone have any potential solutions or tell me why this is happening, I;m desperate!?!?
Thanks!!
Ben.
My machine was running fine until I decided to use Partition Magic 7.0 under Windows 2000 to resize my primary partition. I shrunk one of the logical drives and moved the free space from the extended partition and added it to the primary partition - problem solved!! Or so I thought. The machine then started to run very slowly and it took a while to start Windows 2000 up!
To solve this problem, I decided to do a full reinstall - not really necessary but my computer was getting cluttered - before the reinstall my machine was setup with Win98 and Win2000 dual boot with Win98 on drive C:, storage and stuff on Drive D: (2nd Drive) and Win2000 on drive E: (2nd partition on 1st drive).
I went into FDISK and totally cleaned it. I removed ALL partitions added a new primary partition and an extended partition with two logical partitions in it. I then went to format the drive after exiting FDISK and rebooting. Drive C: would not pass 0%, in any Windows installation, or as a format from the DOS prompt. The other drives on the same disk would format - even though they did seem slow, but it is a 40GB drive so I was expecting it to take a long time. The 'Verifying Drive Integrity' also seemed very slow under FDISK when I was creating the first partition but seemed to dramatically speed up afterwards, but I assume this was because it had less drive to verify!??! I also performed this command 'FDISK /CMBR 1' to format the Master Boot Record. This did not help!!
Following this, I created a set of Partition Magic boot disks on another PC. When booted of these I was able to wipe the partition table and create a completely new one and then format the drives under partition magic. This allowed me to see the drives under a Windows 2000 installation and I did not need to reformat the drive to install Windows 2000. Windows 2000 appeared to install with no problems but when I booted up Windows 2000 for the first time, it was very very slow. My computer usually boots up in 1 minute - it is now taking 3 or 4 minutes and the HDD light on the front of the case appears to be permanently on the search for drivers for my devices also proved a very time consuming process!!! Also, it gets beyond a jooke when I log into Windows 2000 and I have to wait about 5 seconds for my icons to load their images!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to admit I am dumbfounded with this problem - no hardware has been touched in anyway, the case has not even moved 1 inch so I sincerely doubt any hardware has been damaged. The only solution I can think of is that the drive was used for dual booting and is not now so maybe some part of the MBR still has a problem (as I gather the 'FDISK /CMBR 1' command does not format all of the MBR).
Does anyone have any potential solutions or tell me why this is happening, I;m desperate!?!?
Thanks!!
Ben.
