I have a Win XP Home system, my old system was Win98SE.
I have scavenged the hard drive from the old system and installed it into my new computer. I have run FDISK and attempted to create a W98SE partition on the primary and a WXP partition on the secondary.
8gb C: MASTER IDE 0
40gb D: SLAVE IDE 0
CDROM E: MASTER IDE 1
I’ve installed W98SE to C: an WXP to the D:.
WXP performs correctly, I am having a great deal of difficulty with W98SE.
Initially, the set-up CDROM was copied to the 8gb hard drive. Not only did it take a long time to set-up, once loaded it ran very slowly. Start-up took ages, 15 minutes or more. I went into MSCONFIG and stopped some unnecessary programs. Still the same. I’ve even disconnected the 40gb drive, still no improvement.
I decided to try and install W98 how I consider, conventionally, directly from the CD ROM. I believe I was seeing marked improvement in the reload process till after it had done one of its restarts. It then asked for the W98 CDROM. On Browsing I found the CD drive was no longer recognised. To complete the reload I assigned the copy of CDROM on the Harddrive, the machine immediately slowed down.
My questions are. Does anyone know why W98SE is so slow? I assume my CD Drive is too new for W98SE and may have to download the drivers from my installation disk. How do I do this in the middle of the installation process?
I have scavenged the hard drive from the old system and installed it into my new computer. I have run FDISK and attempted to create a W98SE partition on the primary and a WXP partition on the secondary.
8gb C: MASTER IDE 0
40gb D: SLAVE IDE 0
CDROM E: MASTER IDE 1
I’ve installed W98SE to C: an WXP to the D:.
WXP performs correctly, I am having a great deal of difficulty with W98SE.
Initially, the set-up CDROM was copied to the 8gb hard drive. Not only did it take a long time to set-up, once loaded it ran very slowly. Start-up took ages, 15 minutes or more. I went into MSCONFIG and stopped some unnecessary programs. Still the same. I’ve even disconnected the 40gb drive, still no improvement.
I decided to try and install W98 how I consider, conventionally, directly from the CD ROM. I believe I was seeing marked improvement in the reload process till after it had done one of its restarts. It then asked for the W98 CDROM. On Browsing I found the CD drive was no longer recognised. To complete the reload I assigned the copy of CDROM on the Harddrive, the machine immediately slowed down.
My questions are. Does anyone know why W98SE is so slow? I assume my CD Drive is too new for W98SE and may have to download the drivers from my installation disk. How do I do this in the middle of the installation process?