Geez, Ray, I've been glued to my machine waiting for your response g
Good to know that you've now found the cause of your problem and more
importantly that Maxtor have given you an RTM number. I've only ever had to
send one back to them and got excellent service. Their reputation is still
sound!
Good luck with the replacement.
Mart
"ray" wrote in message
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it was the other hard drive. I finally removed it and
now it boots very quick. The hard drive is damaged and
I'm sending it to Maxtor so they can repair/replace it.
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As I suggested in another post - "Disconnect it
temporally if you're not
sure."
See if things improve with the D: drive
disconnected/removed.
Mart
"ray" wrote in
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I tried running scandisk on my D drive, and it said that
it was not properly formatted or a program such as disk
utility has locked it. It says format the drive or
wait
for the utility to finish. I don't have any disk
utility
running, so I guess it does need formatted. Could that
be the whole problem? It can't read the drive properly
on startup?
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Well, those figures look reasonably 'normal', so I
don't
think you've a
problem there. BTW - you can 'order' the timing by
clicking on the
"Duration" column heading.
The only other thoughts a-
Did this "slowdown" suddenly happen?
Have you loaded any new software recently?
Check your start-up axis for 'unnecessary
programs/utilities.
Try http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
and
checkout the second
bullet point in particular
Mart
"ray" wrote in
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I'm guessing it's seconds
the longest one is InitDone = TSRQuery (time
estimated)
under delays, it shows the following:
Loading Vxd=vnetbios.nxd 1.000
Dynamic init device PCI 0.944
Enumerating Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)("blah
blah stuff") .278
Enumerating USB Root Hub (USB\ROOT_HUB\PCI"blah
blah") .389
Dynamic init device PPPMAC 1.056
Initing esdi_506.pdr .333
Initing esdi_506.pdr .611
initDone=TSRQuery(time estimated) 1.722
EndTerminate=User(time estimated) ###.###
The time on the left column starts at 20:44:56 and
ends
20:45:03 then at the EndTerminate=User(time
Estimated)
it goes to 21:22:36 and has a long list of "Removing"
and "Removed" things and ends at 21:22:36
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The largest one was 1.722
Minutes or seconds?
If minutes, then that *might* explain your "1-2
minutes
just sitting there"
But you need to identify the cause of the 1.722 at
that
point. What
operation does it say is taking place at that time?
Mart
wrote in
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The largest one was 1.722
-----Original Message-----
Try
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/boo...alyzer123.html
Mart
wrote in
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l...
The first link doesn't work, page cannot be
displayed
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Try Boot Log Analyzer (Freeware) from
http://www.vision4.dial.pipex.com/
It might help you to pin down the cause of the
slow
boot-
ups. (NB - it also
works on WinME)
Look at the 'Duration' column and look for an
event
(or
events) taking
several 'tens' or 'hundreds' of seconds, instead
of
fractions or several
seconds. (5 mins = 300 seconds)
Also see "Load Failures Listed in the Bootlog.txt
File"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;en-
us;127970
If you not sure how to decipher the results, you
might
need to seek the
assistance of your local PC repair shop. To be
fair,
the
BLA page does state
that " ... interpreting the results requires in-
depth
technical knowledge."
HTH
Mart
"ray" wrote
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news:273401c4a194$414020d0$a601280a@phx. gbl...
I just installed ME on a formatted hard drive.
Everything is working good except it takes a
long
time
to
boot up. It gets to the windows screen and
just
sits
there. The only thing on screen is a green
background
and the hourglass mouse pointer. The red light
is
flashing so it is doing SOMETHING, but I don't
know
why
it is taking so long. It takes about 1-2
mintues
of
just
sitting there before the windows screen finally
comes
up
with all the icons and whatever.
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