Re: SYSTEM RUNNING/BOOTING SLOW !!

From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_NOTsocal.rr.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:41:31 -0700

       NTFS is the file system of choice for WinXP.
       If you have two hard drives with different rotational speeds then
connect the faster one as Master on the
       Primary IDE channel. The slower one should be connected as slave.
Both CD drives should be on the
       Secondary IDE channel. Hopefully your OS is on the faster drive.
       Motherboards that have a Raid Controller and can give you an extra
two IDE channels for your hard drives
       is a real plus at these times.
          One benefit I can think of having your Hard Drives as Master on
both Primary and Secondary and your
      CD drives as slaves is when you are copying cd to cd. Try different
configurations.
"RAHUL GHOSH" <rahul_deb2002@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:606001c474e4$d576e180$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> 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 ???
> Regards,
> Rahul.
>

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