On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:54:27 -0400, "PCR" wrote:

Do you do large deletes in Explorer before you experience these delays?
It is a flaw that some have experienced after upgrading to IE6, that
large deletes using Explorer may cause subsequent delay to perform any
Explorer task, including clicking the START button. The task gets done,
& a reboot will eliminate further delays, until the next large delete.

Best solution may be to do such deletes in a Windows DOS box.
PCR

While I was copying partitions I had my two HDDs plus the would-be new
HDD cabled up.Halfway through I stopped and deleted some files from a
partition with a drive letter that does not exist now that I am down
to two HDDs. (I don't remember the size but it could have been a
folder full.)

But the deleted files were still in the recycle bin when I switched
drives. I could not remove them from the recycle bin until I deleted
another file and then removed them all.

Another problem: I can't access web pages on the Internet with IE6,
but I can use my email program (Pegasus) and my news reader (Agent)

I don't know if this indicates anything, but when I [cntl][alt][del]
right after boot-up, there is only one thing running -- explorer.

Stan Hilliard

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"Stan Hilliard" wrote in
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| On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:59:17 -0500, Stan Hilliard
| wrote:
|
| 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\sof twa~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.
|
| I now don't think that the problem is slow reading of data on the new
| drive. This because my new-mail folder (using Pegasus) containing
| 1,300 messages loads as fast as it ever did. That data is on another
| partition (E on the same drive. However, as I up the Internet I got
| this message:
|
| "Disk write error
| Unable to write to drive C:
| Data or files may be lost"
|
| I then copied a text file from E: to C:. It copied but it had one of
| those 1 minute delays. Another delay when I deleted it from C:
|
| Here is more information that I have discovered:
|
| If I [cntl][alt][del] right after boot-up, there is only ONE thing in
| the window -- explorer.
|
| The performance symptom is that Windows 98SE frequently will freeze
| for 20 seconds to a minute doing simple things like selecting an item
| from the start menu. It takes that long just to change focus from one
| menu item to another. These delays occur intermittently. When they
| happen I can move the mouse cursor, but the focus doesn't move to the
| item. The same thing happens selecting desktop icons -- sometimes it
| works immediately and sometimes the long delay.
|
| Stan Hilliard