Seagate HDD slow

[tbalazs]

A 60GB HDD crashed under WinMe (poss virus). Have repartitioned entire disk as FAT32, run fdisk/mbr, and reformatted. Now with a minimal WinMe installation the PC boots OK but then Me loads incredibly slowly and I can hear the disk being accessed very slowly, with the HDD LED flashing in sequences of four. The OS does evenually load and run, albeit slowly. The BIOS is set to autodetect and LBA and detects the correct HDD capacity.
Any tips gratefully received!
Tony.

 

[SYAR2003]

Use more smaller partitions on FAT32 .

One big c: partition and install Windows ME on is not such a great idea .

Partition the drive with the operating system (C as small
as possible somewhere along 2-4GB perhaps .So it holds
the OS and the virtual memory file .

Partition a program partition for .\Program Files (installed programs).Say 20GB.

Partition a data partition for user data ,storage and archiving (last partition on the drive, at the slowest part).Say 30GB.

This will also make defragmetation easier/faster as defrag on e.g C: is only 2-4GB .
(best performance = always have 20% or more free space on each drive)


"FAT32 gets slow on big partitions."

 

[tbalazs]

Thank you. I will try this and write back.
Tony.