Solve : hard Drive takes almost an hour to boot?

1.	Solve : hard Drive takes almost an hour to boot?
Answer» I dont know why, but I do not get any errors, it just takes a really long time to boot. I have xp installed, when it finally does boot it works fine. The only thing I can think of is I have the hard drive on IDE channel 1 as the master instead of IDE channel 0. Would that make a difference, it really shouldn't. A little help please!!What are your system specs CPU/RAM etc... If its a Pentium II 233Mhz with 64MB Ram, ( lowest powered setup I have ever seen XP operate stable but *SLOWLY[/i]* on ) its going to take forever!!! Also listen to the hard drive on boot, and watch the HD LED is it on solid yet not much is happening in relation to HD chatter or its is constantly chattering with activity. Is it clunking at all or any other unusual noise. Il'd test with a different HD to see if its a HD problem or other problem with motherboards controller etc. More liekly HD, but as I stated above, if its a very old BOX with a very old low power CPU and bare minimum Ram, then its going to always be painful. I am guessing however that thsi computer ram correct and fast earlier in its life and this is a new problem.Is there anything in the taskbar thats loading when you get into xp? Anything near the clock along with maleware an spyware these little programs that start when xp does will slow it down a good bit.Download and RUN the FREE diagnostics from the drive manuf. site... The file creates a bootable CD/floppy so you don't need to be in Windows to run it. If the test shows the drive has problems STOP USING it immediately if you want any chance of recovering the Data...Try booting in safe mode to see if it boots quicker. Let us know!!well it's none of the above. I downloaded a utility for samsung hard drives, everything checks out ok exept the dma access, is says TIMED out. What does that mean. is the drive fried?Nearly an hour to boot Windows? if you weren't exaggerating I'd say not fried yet, but frying nicely. Time-out or CRC errors mean something is wrong with the way the hard drive is transferring data. It could be on the way out, or there is a (small) chance it could be a loose or damaged cable. Back up your important data while you have the chance. We still don't know what flavor of Windows this is but if the drive has dropped back to PIO mode all transfers will be painfully slow. This happens when the drive is exhibiting erratic behaviour and or has errors. I'm suprised the drive fitness test says it passed at all. To change the drive mode in Win2K/XP travel to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/ Secondary IDE/ Properties....change the mode to UDMA if available or DMA and re-boot for the changes to take effect. Is there a special reason you don't have the drive running on the Primary IDE channel ? ? Quote from: patio on MAY 11, 2008, 01:44:51 PM To change the drive mode in Win2K/XP travel to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/ Secondary IDE/ Properties....change the mode to UDMA if available or DMA and re-boot for the changes to take effect. 6 consecutive timeouts will force a registry change so that DMA/UDMA is locked out. In this case, the user cannot turn on DMA for this device. The only option for the user who wants to enable DMA mode is to uninstall and reinstall the device. A bizarre reason for very slow IDE transfers is if you try to put the ATA plug on the hard disk the wrong way around, the gap called "KEYPIN" (pin 20 on the plug) pushes pin 21 of the hard disk socket and bends it aside. (This pin is responsible for DMA requests of the hard disk.) As the disk can no longer reach the host with its requests, there is a communications problem, and Windows XP switches into PIO mode. A blessing in disguise: You can still save the data, though slower than usual. Few will succeed in repairing the disk. Just pulling the pin straight may not quite CUT it, as the connection to the printed circuit board is probably broken. Well I figured it out, thanks for all your help!!!!!!!!!. Guess what, I was fixing this hard drive for a guy and finally thought, DMA access is the pin that can get broken if you plug your IDE cable in upside down. The pin was broken, hence no dma access and it must have switched to PIO and took forever. I pulled out a pin out of my old cd rom drive and super glued the censored into the broken pin slot. OMG it worked. I thought it wouldn't but the drive booted right up. THANKS AGAIN!!!

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I dont know why, but I do not get any errors, it just takes a really long time to boot. I have xp installed, when it finally does boot it works fine. The only thing I can think of is I have the hard drive on IDE channel 1 as the master instead of IDE channel 0. Would that make a difference, it really shouldn't. A little help please!!What are your system specs CPU/RAM etc...

If its a Pentium II 233Mhz with 64MB Ram, ( lowest powered setup I have ever seen XP operate stable but SLOWLY[/i] on ) its going to take forever!!!

Also listen to the hard drive on boot, and watch the HD LED is it on solid yet not much is happening in relation to HD chatter or its is constantly chattering with activity. Is it clunking at all or any other unusual noise.

Il'd test with a different HD to see if its a HD problem or other problem with motherboards controller etc. More liekly HD, but as I stated above, if its a very old BOX with a very old low power CPU and bare minimum Ram, then its going to always be painful.

I am guessing however that thsi computer ram correct and fast earlier in its life and this is a new problem.Is there anything in the taskbar thats loading when you get into xp? Anything near the clock along with maleware an spyware these little programs that start when xp does will slow it down a good bit.Download and RUN the FREE diagnostics from the drive manuf. site...
The file creates a bootable CD/floppy so you don't need to be in Windows to run it.
If the test shows the drive has problems STOP USING it immediately if you want any chance of recovering the Data...Try booting in safe mode to see if it boots quicker. Let us know!!well it's none of the above. I downloaded a utility for samsung hard drives, everything checks out ok exept the dma access, is says TIMED out. What does that mean. is the drive fried?Nearly an hour to boot Windows? if you weren't exaggerating I'd say not fried yet, but frying nicely. Time-out or CRC errors mean something is wrong with the way the hard drive is transferring data. It could be on the way out, or there is a (small) chance it could be a loose or damaged cable. Back up your important data while you have the chance.
We still don't know what flavor of Windows this is but if the drive has dropped back to PIO mode all transfers will be painfully slow.
This happens when the drive is exhibiting erratic behaviour and or has errors.
I'm suprised the drive fitness test says it passed at all.

To change the drive mode in Win2K/XP travel to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/ Secondary IDE/ Properties....change the mode to UDMA if available or DMA and re-boot for the changes to take effect.

Is there a special reason you don't have the drive running on the Primary IDE channel ? ? Quote from: patio on MAY 11, 2008, 01:44:51 PM

To change the drive mode in Win2K/XP travel to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/ Secondary IDE/ Properties....change the mode to UDMA if available or DMA and re-boot for the changes to take effect.

6 consecutive timeouts will force a registry change so that DMA/UDMA is locked out. In this case, the user cannot turn on DMA for this device. The only option for the user who wants to enable DMA mode is to uninstall and reinstall the device.

A bizarre reason for very slow IDE transfers is if you try to put the ATA plug on the hard disk the wrong way around, the gap called "KEYPIN" (pin 20 on the plug) pushes pin 21 of the hard disk socket and bends it aside. (This pin is responsible for DMA requests of the hard disk.) As the disk can no longer reach the host with its requests, there is a communications problem, and Windows XP switches into PIO mode. A blessing in disguise: You can still save the data, though slower than usual. Few will succeed in repairing the disk. Just pulling the pin straight may not quite CUT it, as the connection to the printed circuit board is probably broken.
Well I figured it out, thanks for all your help!!!!!!!!!. Guess what, I was fixing this hard drive for a guy and finally thought, DMA access is the pin that can get broken if you plug your IDE cable in upside down. The pin was broken, hence no dma access and it must have switched to PIO and took forever. I pulled out a pin out of my old cd rom drive and super glued the *censored* into the broken pin slot. OMG it worked. I thought it wouldn't but the drive booted right up. THANKS AGAIN!!!

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