I have an emachines Celeron 333 - 64 mb ram - 4 gb hd with about 500mb free (recently defraged), Win 98.
The system is constantly thrashing the harddrive - at boot time, when starting up AOL. Explorer, or Quicken - it can take several minutes sometimes just to settle down and stop hitting the harddrive. Would it help if I added a larger drive (40gb) and moved all the programs and data to it, leaving the 'C' drive for the Operating System and not much else? I'm thinking it would have less data to churn thru each time it's trying to do routine stuff (if that's what the thrashing is).
I could also increase RAM if I thought that would help, but I don't know if that makes sense.
Thanks alot.
The system is constantly thrashing the harddrive - at boot time, when starting up AOL. Explorer, or Quicken - it can take several minutes sometimes just to settle down and stop hitting the harddrive. Would it help if I added a larger drive (40gb) and moved all the programs and data to it, leaving the 'C' drive for the Operating System and not much else? I'm thinking it would have less data to churn thru each time it's trying to do routine stuff (if that's what the thrashing is).
I could also increase RAM if I thought that would help, but I don't know if that makes sense.
Thanks alot.