MeDieViL02 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted December 9, 2008 MVC Share Posted December 9, 2008 Why do you feel you need to do that? Your boot ini would most likely have to be changed.. And you would have to prob run a fixboot from recovery console. How exactly do you plan on changing it without out loosing data? What is the make up of your current partitions - can you give a screen shot from disk manager showing the partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeDieViL02 Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 Why do you feel you need to do that? Your boot ini would most likely have to be changed.. And you would have to prob run a fixboot from recovery console.How exactly do you plan on changing it without out loosing data? What is the make up of your current partitions - can you give a screen shot from disk manager showing the partitions. because my windows xp install slowed down after creating a new partition and removing it again did not fix the problem i however remember having the problem in the past once, it happened because my primary partition somehow changed to a logical one and changing that again fixed it i wonna try making it logical and then returning it to primary again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted December 9, 2008 MVC Share Posted December 9, 2008 WHAT? :blink: That makes NO sense.. there is NO difference in speed between a primary partition and extended with logical drives in it. Nor would adding a partition have anything to do with the speed of access to another partitions on the drive. Not sure what your speed issue is but toggling the partitions between primary and an extended with logical drives is not going to fix it. Also primary partitions to not just change to extended with logical drives ;) If you feel your drive is not as fast as it should be, its possible windows has lowered the speed it access the drive at.. When it sees errors it will continue to lower the speed.. ie from ATA 100, ATA 66, 33, PIO mode, etc. I guess having it think it found a new drive might reset this??? But you can fix this by just deleting the controller in device manager. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472 IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur To re-enable the typical, or faster, transfer mode for an affected device: 1. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then click Computer Management. 2. Click System Tools, and then click Device Manager. 3. Expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers node. 4. Double-click the controller for which you want to restore the typical DMA transfer mode. 5. Click the Driver tab. 6. Click Uninstall. 7. When the process completes, restart your computer. When Windows restarts, the hard disk controller is re-enumerated and the transfer mode is reset to the default value for each device that is connected to the controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeDieViL02 Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 i deleted primary ide but it seemed to reinstall my dvd writer driver? i'l try delete the other 2 secondary and via bus master ide controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeDieViL02 Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 it didnt seem to have worked :( i dont know what caused it, my windows was all of a sudden a hell lot slower after creating a new partition formatting isnt an option, this is my dads PC and i allways have lots of trouble setting it all up for him:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 It almost sounds like he shrunk his main partition -- have you tried Defrag and Scandisk? Sometimes when you use a program to shrink a partition fragmentation occurs also could have something to do with virtual memory-- rule of thumb is to have windows manage it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeDieViL02 Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 turned my page file back on but didnt do much, i did defrag but also didnt really work i remember having this problem in the past and the only thing that worked was converting it from a logical to a primary partition i know it doenst make sense, all i know is it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted December 10, 2008 MVC Share Posted December 10, 2008 I'm sorry, but as Budman said the type of partition has nothing to do with your problem. And trying to disable the pagefile will certainly slow down the system even more. Why don't you post everything you did before the system slowed down - EVERYTHING - and let's see if we can figure out what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeDieViL02 Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 I'm sorry, but as Budman said the type of partition has nothing to do with your problem. And trying to disable the pagefile will certainly slow down the system even more. Why don't you post everything you did before the system slowed down - EVERYTHING - and let's see if we can figure out what happened. i let linux resize my partition, make its own partitions and then installed it it was SUSE linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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