SYSTEM RUNNING/BOOTING SLOW...

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RAHUL GHOSH wrote:
> (1)I'm having 2 HardDisks & 2 CDdrives in my system..
> My HDD's RPM may not be same, i'm not very sure..But how
> does it affect system boot time if RPM of both drives are
> dissimilar?? Because if the RAMs doesn't match(in case u r
> having 2 RAMs in the system), then the system will not
> boot..Similarly if the HDdrives' RPM are not similar then
> how will it affect the system--will it ever boot or boot
> slow???
> (2)Finally please tell me the correct rule to connect
> 2HDDs & 2CD drives with the IDE ports of the motherboard
> in terms of primary & secondary master/slave ...I mean to
> say how should one connect the 2 harddisks & 2 CD drives
> with the IDE ports of motherboard in terms of primary &
> secondary master/slave??? whether the HDDs should be
> connected as primary master & 2ndary master or as primary
> master & primary slave???
> (3)Also please tell me win-XP works better on which--FAT32
> or NTFS ???
> please help
> Regards,
> Rahul..

Please review the replies from the last time you posted less than an hour
ago. Please learn to have some patience.