Slow start up

Lisa.O

Another suggestion - enter setup when starting PC you have to press F1 or F8 or whatever flashes up in black and white just after PC is switched on - check the boot order - either hard disk, floppy or CD or other - this is order that computer looks for operating system - useful if you boot from CD but normally boot is done from hard drive - ensure that hard drive is set as primary boot.

Hope this helps??

sleepali

Lisa.O wrote:

Another suggestion - enter setup when starting PC you have to press F1 or F8 or whatever flashes up in black and white just after PC is switched on - check the boot order - either hard disk, floppy or CD or other - this is order that computer looks for operating system - useful if you boot from CD but normally boot is done from hard drive - ensure that hard drive is set as primary boot.

Hope this helps??

Have done this already, thanx for your suggestion tho'

albertross_2

Have you run chkdsk d: /F/R and done a defrag, just to rule out any physical/logical problems.

How does a safe mode boot compare?

There is one big difference between the 2, one has windows on C:, and one has it on .. can you explain, how/why is the o/s on d:? What is on C:?

sleepali

albertross wrote:

Have you run chkdsk c: /F/R and done a defrag, just to rule out any physical/logical problems.

How does a safe mode boot compare?

Have run chkdsk and defrag on both drives for 'other' machine (although both machines are only a couple of weeks old), no physical/logical probs.

Not tried a safe mode boot tho', may check that tomorrow (today).

Cheers