Hello everyone!
I recently built a system with the motherboard P4X400 Dragon Lite SOYO, 256 MB RAM, 2.6GHZ Celeron. I used an old hard disk from my old HP system running originally Windows ME which I also upgraded to Win2000. The HP system (766 MHZ Celeron, 198MB RAM, 30GB HD) was running very slowly after the upgrade to Win2000. That's the reason why I decided to build the new system and put Windows 2000 on it. I was expecting a big improvement in the performance for the new system, but it is as slow as the old HP system (about 25 minutes for startup). This made me think that the problem is with the hard drive which is the only component I used from the old HP. So my question is: If I reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows2000, is it legitimate to think this will boost the performance up? Please advise before I destroy all the data on drive!
Thank you.
I recently built a system with the motherboard P4X400 Dragon Lite SOYO, 256 MB RAM, 2.6GHZ Celeron. I used an old hard disk from my old HP system running originally Windows ME which I also upgraded to Win2000. The HP system (766 MHZ Celeron, 198MB RAM, 30GB HD) was running very slowly after the upgrade to Win2000. That's the reason why I decided to build the new system and put Windows 2000 on it. I was expecting a big improvement in the performance for the new system, but it is as slow as the old HP system (about 25 minutes for startup). This made me think that the problem is with the hard drive which is the only component I used from the old HP. So my question is: If I reformat the hard drive before reinstalling Windows2000, is it legitimate to think this will boost the performance up? Please advise before I destroy all the data on drive!
Thank you.