Re: Verry slow boot

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Was any other hardware added at the same time? Is the new hard drive a different type than the old drive (e.g. SATA)? It sounds like the BIOS is taking a while to identify the new drive. This may be because of several different issues. The most likely is a simple BIOS setting.

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Kerry Brown
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"pepper" <pepper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:533F6FC1-2C3A-448E-A638-AF8E68834DB3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
someone installed a new larger HDD and ever since it takes ages to load.

It seems to get stuck on a black screen with cursor blinking before finding
the operating system.

If I press for bios it does the same thing before it enters the bios. Just
wondering if I should looking at bios instead of boot.ini (which is missing
off the msconfig tab by the way).

I'm not sure if i should be looking at hardware (such as graphics card), OS
files (create new boot.ini). There is only one XPP, two partitions on the
250gb drive.

.

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