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nipsmg:
It's almost definitely your drive.
That's INSANELY slow for your configuration. there's no way a 4ghz C2D E8500 should take that long to boot.
I understand you're tight on cash, but there are ridiculous deals to be had on 1tb and 2tb sata drives. I believe a 2GB Sata 5400 RPM drive was just going for 54 bucks?
Get on the e-mail list to NewEgg and check your e-mail daily, or check SLickDeals.net or DigitalDeals.net daily.
tony.silveira:
i also have internally the following, wd10-eavs-00d7b0, 5400rpm sata with 8mb cache. there is enough space on it to install tiny xp but a couple of questions:
1. can i install xp on available space? i know i run the risk of losing data but i can't reformat the disk from scratch (to much on it and not enough space on other hd's)
2. i'm assuming this drive is much faster than my current boot drive
thanks all for your help
tony.silveira:
so i went ahead and partitioned that sata dive, made a 15gb partition for a tinyxp install.
it installed just fine and booted like a dream; after POST (23 seconds), i was up on the desktop in just about 30 seconds (total of about 52 seconds)!
i then installed a few things i need on the machine; my video card and touch screen drivers, xpadder, daemon tools, etc. and boot times were still under a minute!
THEN i installed norton anti virus since my machine is on the net and bingo, boot times right back up to about 1m30s vs. about 1m40s with my normal install. i'm sure if i got a speedier drive (maybe even a cf to ide), i'd probably get down to just over 1 minute with tinyXP and it would probably be a bit more stable even.
but man, if i could just figure out how to shave that POST time of 23 seconds; that seems extremely long to me.
thank you all for the suggestions so far, it really is appreciated!
oh, one last question. i have my "normal" xp install on the slow drive and my tinyXP install on the other drive. can anyone recommend an OS boot selector? i'm thinking on tinyXP that i could delete norton if i deleted any internet capabilities and have a sub 1 minute boot time when friends are over just for games.
thanks again, tony
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I've never seen Norton do anything but make a machine unusable. Ever.
AVG is free and works well. Microsoft Security Essentials works well also, but requires a valid license (which TinyXP does not provide).
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download-free-antivirus
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Mikezilla:
I dont mean to thread jack this or anything, but what does Daemon tools do? I bought a PC for my mame machine and it came with it on it. :dunno
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