Wait....is something wrong?

daveydave

daveydave

daveydave

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hey fellas, i recently went Sata II. I bought a 500gb Spinpoint and used true image to transfer over everything from my two pata drives. Alls well except i've noticed its taking longer for all my startup progs to initiate. So i ran HDTach and this is what i got...

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Is something wrong? :confused:

cheers
 
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no idea frankly, it could be that your O/S is loading lots of drivers or older stuff from the Registry. I would plan a clean fresh install. Is the drive already full? It could slow down access time.. I don't know Spinpoint so I am not aware of any issue on image transfers.
 
david.n.c said:
Is something wrong? :confused:

cheers
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The HDTach trace looks fine, the burst and average transfer rates are about right, the trace has a number of troughs in it but they could be down to other processes accessing the disk while the benchmark was running though. Unless they're much deeper it's not worth worrying about.

I'm not sure why replacing older PATA disks with a new SATA one would cause problems. As a first guess it's possible that the C: partition is not at the start (outside) of the disk which would mean that you wouldn't be using the quick part of the disk. The Disk Management utility should show the order of partitions on the disk for you.

Other than that the usual defrag etc are worth a try but unlikely to give any serious improvements.
 
david.n.c said:
ok...cheers also should all my partitions be marked as active? my c: is but the rest arent :confused:
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If I am not wrong I think Rpstewart meant to look on which portion of the disk you are booting from in the sense that it may take time to access certain areas of the drive. (my interpretation).
The booting partition should be marked as active and contain the boot files.
 
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