HDD slowdown when booting
If, like I had , you have a 3min+ or slower boot time where Windows XP seems to sit for 2+ or so minutes with the XP logo doing nothing before everything comes to life, then do the following.
Download Bootvis from www.microsoft.com and run it the next time you boot. Do a ‘Trace’
If it shows a very long ‘HDD init’ time of minutes rather than seconds then this is how to fix it.
This example assumes you have 1 Hard drive on your primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM(or CD)
and CD-R on your two secondary IDE channels.
Go to start > right click on my computer > click properties. Click Hardware > Device Manager.
Go to IDE/ATAPI Controllers. Select primary channel. Right click properties. Click the Advance settings tab. Then on the device (0 or 1)that does not have ‘device type’ greyed out select ‘disable’ instead of ‘autodetect’. This should stop windows trying to find a drive that isn’t there.
If you have your IDE channels set up differently simply repat the above for the secondary IDE channel settings.
When I did this my boot time went from 3mins 20 to 35 seconds.
Tags: Hardware, Windows, windows xp
pakpu on 07 Jun 2007 at 8:13 pm #
Sometimes we need to run “chkdsk /r” to fix the error that harddisk might have which can caused the delay in booting.
Nien on 20 Jun 2007 at 5:58 am #
bootvis is no longer available on microsoft.com