Windows 2000 boots slooowly

[PennyB]

I'm using windows 2000 sp4, and this morning the machine took an age to load from the blue screen to the network connections/login prompt.

I had defragged the disk last night, so I don't think the problem is the hard disk - anyone got any ideas on what can be causing this and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance

Penny

 

[kmkeshav]

Is your machine joined to a Domain?

-Keshav

 

[PennyB]

No, just my local network

 

[LWComputingMVP]

Run chkdsk c: /r and schedule a chkdsk at next boot. Defrag does NOT check the disk for errors - it just "organizes" the disk, which helps a little in performance - chkdsk repairs errors.

Also check your event logs. Any errors there?

 

[wolluf]

Was this first time load since the defrag? If using ntfs filestore, I'd suggest defragging virtually never - it makes little performance difference but it does cause other problems sometimes. I'd echo lwcomputing - though I'd only run chkdsk c: /f as the /r option takes longer and only really needed if you think there's damage to hard drive.