WinXPSP2
VAIO PCG - FXA36
48G IBM Hard Drive, in 4 partitions
Recently my boot times sky rocketed to the point that it was taking 15 minutes to boot. As I often turn on the computer as soon as I get to my office and then go off to do other things, I'm not exactly sure when this happened, and can't associate it with any change I made.
Testing the system, I found that my computer was reading data on the C partition at 1/10 the speed of the other three partitions.
I defragmented the partition without significant change.
Running "TuneUp Utilities 2004" I found several hundred registry problems which had been missed by Norton Utilities. I also defragmented the registry. That helped, but the C partition is still accessed (read from) at about 1/3 the speed of the other three.
I'm baffled, and would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
DonC
VAIO PCG - FXA36
48G IBM Hard Drive, in 4 partitions
Recently my boot times sky rocketed to the point that it was taking 15 minutes to boot. As I often turn on the computer as soon as I get to my office and then go off to do other things, I'm not exactly sure when this happened, and can't associate it with any change I made.
Testing the system, I found that my computer was reading data on the C partition at 1/10 the speed of the other three partitions.
I defragmented the partition without significant change.
Running "TuneUp Utilities 2004" I found several hundred registry problems which had been missed by Norton Utilities. I also defragmented the registry. That helped, but the C partition is still accessed (read from) at about 1/3 the speed of the other three.
I'm baffled, and would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
DonC