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I run winxp home and I just added an additional 30 gig HDD
This HDD was not blank and was previously used
when I first added it an then turned on the PC
it would go to the boot screen and just stay there with the blue
bar moving for like 5 min or more, So I restarted and booted into safe mode
and was able to get back into windows and check out the HDD i added
I went to the management console and reformated the HDD that was at that time
in FAT32 which I had believed was the problem why it would not boot.
after formating the drive to NTFS I rebooted and it did the same thing again
So I rebooted and selected safe mode and it began the normal procedure of
booting into safe mode the it restarted on it's own and began a normal boot
and the within about 3 min I was at the welcome screen and I am in right now
typing this post,
I Guess my question is - Is there anything else I should to improve my
boot up time now that i have a HDD that has 30 gig free and could this now be
the cause of the long delay on the boot screen. I just want to make it boot
up as fast as possible
or have I not done something I should have done to begin with
respond devlindark@msn.com
I run winxp home and I just added an additional 30 gig HDD
This HDD was not blank and was previously used
when I first added it an then turned on the PC
it would go to the boot screen and just stay there with the blue
bar moving for like 5 min or more, So I restarted and booted into safe mode
and was able to get back into windows and check out the HDD i added
I went to the management console and reformated the HDD that was at that time
in FAT32 which I had believed was the problem why it would not boot.
after formating the drive to NTFS I rebooted and it did the same thing again
So I rebooted and selected safe mode and it began the normal procedure of
booting into safe mode the it restarted on it's own and began a normal boot
and the within about 3 min I was at the welcome screen and I am in right now
typing this post,
I Guess my question is - Is there anything else I should to improve my
boot up time now that i have a HDD that has 30 gig free and could this now be
the cause of the long delay on the boot screen. I just want to make it boot
up as fast as possible
or have I not done something I should have done to begin with
respond devlindark@msn.com