"Stan Hilliard" wrote in message ...
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.

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.

This isn't really a problem until you try to access these directories in DOS.
I wouldn't keep any critical data in one of these long named dirs, if for
recovery reasons you need to copy them off using DOS.

Chose "Ignore" when prompted by scandisk, or configure Scandskw to
not report "MSDOS name length errors" under the "Advanced" options.


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.

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:


A couple of things you can try.

Download and run "Seatools" from Seagates site and direct it to do
a "full diagnostic"
http://www.seagate.com/support/seato...toold_reg.html

Boot to DOS and do a SCANDISK /ALL /SURFACE Pay attention to
the cluster counter, and note any "hangs".


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.

Does Msconfig startup tab show any items?


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.

Check that virtual memory settings are ok. (let windows manage).

If the disk passes all tests, I would delete the partition and recopy it using
the PM boot disk. Did you do a resize also? I would do a copy retaining the
20GB. There is a cluster size difference between the two. Mabey PM didn't
handle it well?