Hack&Slash

Hey folks.

Here's the problem: Bootvis said XP takes 18 seconds to initialize my disks. So I go online and find someone with the same problem. The solution (for him) was the following:

System Properties/System/Hardware/Device Manager/IDE ATA?ATAPI controllers/Primary IDE Channel/Advanced Settings/Device Type/None.

Doing this dropped my bootvis disk init time to 8 seconds.

I've unplugged my floppy from the board, doesn't change.

Everything's plugged in, and considering my old 2002 laptop loaded on 1.5 bars (or less after clean install), I am at wit's end.

Suggestions?

edit: before I changed IDE settings, I got 12 bars at xp loading screen. After, 5-6.

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billbartuska

Nice to see someone using bootvis.

Are you sure you have all the disks configured correctly in the BIOS?
Sometimes searching for non-existant or non-configures disks slows down posting.

And it's a real shot-in-the-dark to assume someone else's disk initialization problem is yours.

Have you tried letting bootviz optimize?

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Hack&Slash

[quote=billbartuska;7588348]Nice to see someone using bootvis.[quote]

Thanks! It's a great proggy.

The problem's not with post. The problem is that the windows xp status bar runs 6 times during load... which drives me insane because I use all Black Viper's tweaks and should be loading like a moefoe!

Well, that solution (switching IDE from "auto" to "none")cut my disk init from 18 secs to 8 (down from 12 xp loading bars to 6). XP's supposed to ini the disks in 2 seconds!!!

Before, power-on to desktop in 33 secs. After, 22 secs. But not fast enough!!!

Yes. But it didn't do much. The disk initialization is what's slowing it down. Everything else is FAST.

Thanks for the help, bro.

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