Nebulon Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 (edited) A couple days ago, I re-installed Windows 98se on a tower that has a 20GB C: drive and an 80GB D: drive. Prior to the re-install, the 80GB drive worked fine (it was originally partitioned and formatted using Partition Magic, to get around the hard drive size limit issue in Windows 98). The install just over-wrote the OS files. The installed programs are all intact. No hardware changes were made. Since the re-install, everything works great -- except the 80GB drive. I can see and access the data on it, but the drive is really slow. Any copy, move, or delete operation takes forever to execute. Thoughts? Edited October 9, 2014 by Nebulon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 a re install replaced the Windows files...and that is all that it did. any program that was installed after the initial install of windows will have to be rei-nstalled...frustrating I know but it is the nature of the beast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 a re install replaced the Windows files...and that is all that it did. any program that was installed after the initial install of windows will have to be rei-nstalled...frustrating I know but it is the nature of the beast All installed programs are intact. It was just the Windows files that were replaced. That, however, isn't the core issue in this case. The issue I'm having is that the D: drive is slow to access or copy to/from. So that's completely separate from running apps. This is just Windows operations that I'm referring to. To simplify things, just forget that I mentioned that any apps are installed on the machine and go with the premise that it's a fresh install of Windows 98se on a PC that has a 20GB C: drive and an 80GB D: drive, with no hardware changes made to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Check the disk driver settings if DMA is enabled. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardZero Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Maybe the drive is dying? If you have had it for a while it could be time for a replacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Other than the drive failing, I would suspect a Missing, Optimizing Device Driver for the Disk system.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 And the winner is... Thomas Jentzsch DMA solved it. Looks like it was reset to 'off' during the re-install. Thanks so much! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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