On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:51:50 -0500, Stan Hilliard
wrote:

I replaced my 20 G HDD with a 80 G HDD. I copied the partitions from
the old to the new drive with Partition Magic version 6.

skipping a few steps

1) After changing drives, it took 8-10 minutes to boot off the new
drive.

2) The Partition magic "Partitioninfo" utility does not find any
errors with the C: partition. However, Partition Magic "Check for
errors" on drive C: gave this message:

Error - 993. Partition contains open files. Use the operating system
check utility.

3) Scandisk showed about 15 files with this message: (example)

C:\Windows\desktop\hhser~1\develo~1\software\soft wa~2xx&\helpfo~1'
folder cannot be opened because its MS-DOS name, including the names
of any folders it is in, is larger than 66 characters.

Most of these errors involved files in \Windows\ and \Program Files\.

By the way, Scandisk does not have any problem with those same paths
on my old drive.

So I seem to have two problems.
1) Extremely slow performance, and
2) the problem with paths.

What are these problems and how can I correct them.

Sincerely, Stan Hilliard

I have learned that the reason that scandisk did not find long DOS
paths on my old drive but did on the new drive is not due to the
difference in drives.

With the new drive, I unchecked Scandisk's "automatically fix errors"
checkbox, which apparently caused it to do more checking or reporting.
With "automatically fix errors" checked, Scandisk does not notice the
long DOS paths.

Actually, this helped me to discover and fix the cause of a long-term
problem.

I have changed the new drive's jumper from "cable select" to master
(like the old drive was). That might have improved performance, but
the problem is not steady.

I still have the performance problem. The PC now performs at
normal/fast speed for a while and then it will freeze up for 20
seconds to 1 minute or more. One place that this happens is in the
start menu, where there is sometimes long delays in moving the focus
to a new item, and sometimes not!

Information:
The new HDD is a Seagate 80 G ATA100.
The old HDD is/was an IBM 20 G ATA 100.

Any suggestions?

Stan Hilliard