SYSTEM RUNNING/BOOTING SLOW..

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My problems are:--
(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
Ragards,
Rahul..

 

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:59:05 -0700, RAHUL GHOSH wrote:

> My problems are:--
> (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???

Depends on the system. In the past, both drives would work at the speed of
the slower drive. Newer systems are capable of operating the drives at
their respective speeds.

> (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???

The correct rule is the one that works best with your hardware. A common
configuration for the hardware you describe is each hard drive configured
as master - one on each cable. Cdrom drives setup as slaves.

However some cdrom devices will prefer to be in the master position on the
secondary IDE channel. Usually this is mentioned in the documentation for
the device. If nothing is mentioned, experiment or perform an internet
search with google (includes usenet discussions in results) to find out
what's working best for others with the same exact hardware.

> (3)Also please tell me win-XP works better on which--FAT32
> or NTFS ???

NTFS is the native file system but it will work fine with either one.
Personally, I prefer NTFS. If you need FAT32 for some reason, use it
instead.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User