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Hi!
I'm having Celeron 633MHz processor & Intel 810
motherboard..Previously I had only one 20GB SEAGATE
harddisk(with 3 partitions--C,D,E) & 2 CDdrives in my
system that used to run only on win-ME..It used to boot
pretty fast & there was no unwanted diskspace
autoconsumption on any of those drives..
Recently I've installed another 40GB SAMGSUNG harddisk in
addition and freshly partitioned & formated both the HDDs
(20GB partitions-C,E,F & 40GB partitions-D,G,H) and setup
a dual boot system with win-ME on C: & win-XP on D:..
But now my system is booting fairly slower than before,
and more significantly some amount of disk space(say
16kb,40kb,76kb,136kb etc) is automatically consumed in all
the drives upon every few times the system boots.. & this
consumption is increasing gradually & automatically..
I've noticed that space on drives of 20GB HDD is getting
consumed by multiples of 16kb & space on drives of 40GB
HDD is getting consumed by multiples of 32kb...
My questions are:- Previously this peculiar thing was not
happening, then why is it happening now?? How can I stop
this unwanted space consumption in dual boot & make the
system boot faster like it did before???
My Present file system for both win-ME & win-XP is FAT32..
My present IDE conections are as below:-
HDD #20GB - master
HDD #40GB - slave
Both on the primary IDE channel
CD #1 - master
CD #2 - slave
Both on the secondary IDE channel..
Is there anything wrong with my present IDE connection or
file system ?? If yes, please suggest how it should be???
But someone few days ago, has blamed me about not taking
into account the volume cluster sizes in relation to my
above problem..
He also advised me to run a chkdsk from the CMD box...
But I didn't get the concept of volume cluster sizes in
relation to my problem.. can you explain please???
and What is the CMD box he was talking about???how to get
to it??
& yeah i did checked the system restore settings as per
his advice..
there i could find that all my HDdrives are being
monitored and max 12% of diskspace is alloted for system
restore on all drives..
I dont know what should be the correct/optimum
setting..Whether all the drives should be monitored and by
how much (%)???
Please advice..
will modification of this setting have any influence on
booting time(faster/slower)???
will this modification help me overcome the basic problem
of auto-consuming unwanted diskspace on all drives which
goes on increasing day by day??? Or is this a very normal
phenomenon???
N.Blease note that i'm having dual boot with ME & XP
on 2 different drives..
Please Please reply to all the questions.Regards, Rahul.
Hi!
I'm having Celeron 633MHz processor & Intel 810
motherboard..Previously I had only one 20GB SEAGATE
harddisk(with 3 partitions--C,D,E) & 2 CDdrives in my
system that used to run only on win-ME..It used to boot
pretty fast & there was no unwanted diskspace
autoconsumption on any of those drives..
Recently I've installed another 40GB SAMGSUNG harddisk in
addition and freshly partitioned & formated both the HDDs
(20GB partitions-C,E,F & 40GB partitions-D,G,H) and setup
a dual boot system with win-ME on C: & win-XP on D:..
But now my system is booting fairly slower than before,
and more significantly some amount of disk space(say
16kb,40kb,76kb,136kb etc) is automatically consumed in all
the drives upon every few times the system boots.. & this
consumption is increasing gradually & automatically..
I've noticed that space on drives of 20GB HDD is getting
consumed by multiples of 16kb & space on drives of 40GB
HDD is getting consumed by multiples of 32kb...
My questions are:- Previously this peculiar thing was not
happening, then why is it happening now?? How can I stop
this unwanted space consumption in dual boot & make the
system boot faster like it did before???
My Present file system for both win-ME & win-XP is FAT32..
My present IDE conections are as below:-
HDD #20GB - master
HDD #40GB - slave
Both on the primary IDE channel
CD #1 - master
CD #2 - slave
Both on the secondary IDE channel..
Is there anything wrong with my present IDE connection or
file system ?? If yes, please suggest how it should be???
But someone few days ago, has blamed me about not taking
into account the volume cluster sizes in relation to my
above problem..
He also advised me to run a chkdsk from the CMD box...
But I didn't get the concept of volume cluster sizes in
relation to my problem.. can you explain please???
and What is the CMD box he was talking about???how to get
to it??
& yeah i did checked the system restore settings as per
his advice..
there i could find that all my HDdrives are being
monitored and max 12% of diskspace is alloted for system
restore on all drives..
I dont know what should be the correct/optimum
setting..Whether all the drives should be monitored and by
how much (%)???
Please advice..
will modification of this setting have any influence on
booting time(faster/slower)???
will this modification help me overcome the basic problem
of auto-consuming unwanted diskspace on all drives which
goes on increasing day by day??? Or is this a very normal
phenomenon???
N.Blease note that i'm having dual boot with ME & XP
on 2 different drives..
Please Please reply to all the questions.Regards, Rahul.