My brand new 320Gb Hard Disk

[K.I.L.E.R]

Windows loads up almost instantly from the time I start it up to the time it's in the desktop; 3-5 seconds.

Windows's installation is very quick, much quicker than before.
I always thought my CD-ROM was what held back the speed of the Windows installation. This wasn't the case.
I thought my previous hard drive was faster than my CD-ROM, so why is the result the opposite?

 

[Ty]

Probably several factors (which I'm totally guessing at):

Decompression of the files from the CD (i.e. they decompress on your HD during installation).

Your HD has faster sustained throughput for sure but perhaps the files being written to your HD didn't allow for sustained transfers of data.

Your new HD probably has more cache.

Your new HD probably has a higher data density.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Oh, and your new hard drive is probably a bit faster too.


BTW-No problems on the install? Windows sees all of it? :|

 

[nutball]

Fresh installs of Windows are always much quicker (less crud in the registry, etc.). Give it a couple of months when you've filled your disc up with pr0n and other "stuffs", it'll be slow again.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Fresh installs of Windows are always much quicker (less crud in the registry, etc.). Give it a couple of months when you've filled your disc up with pr0n and other "stuffs", it'll be slow again.

I've already transfered all my porn.

 

[AlNom]

porn doesn't slow me down.

It's usually programs like Norton or other things that just "have to" run in background.

edit: er... porn doesn't slow the hard drive down.

 

[digitalwanderer]

It's usually programs like Norton or other things that just "have to" run in background.

That's why I don't run those types of programs.

 

[Rur0ni]

Limit your running processes(check em all, make sure nothing is running that doesnt need to be). A good defrag(i like perfect disk personally), and nice defragged and compressed registry. System performs like i've formatted and reinstalled.

Drive can be packed full of stuff, as long as its defragged well, in a particular order as well(smart placement) and it still performs like its empty

 

[Sxotty]

Windows loads up almost instantly from the time I start it up to the time it's in the desktop; 3-5 seconds.

I find that very hard to believe. But if you really have figured out how to do it you ought to let the masses know since there are many places dedicated to lowering the bootup time and they would be thrilled if they could get from power on to desktop in 3-5 seconds, especially for a car pc

 

[RussSchultz]

Coming out of hibernate my PC is probably 5-ish. Maybe a little more.

 

[digitalwanderer]

What exactly is "hibernate" and why would I want to use it? :?

 

[RussSchultz]

It writes the contents of memory out to the disk and powers off.

When it powers up, you're back where you were.

Hibernate is your friend.

 

[Ty]

Hibernate is your friend.

I thought it was kind of 'iffy' in terms of stability....

 

[digitalwanderer]

Hibernate is your friend.

I thought it was kind of 'iffy' in terms of stability....

That's been my experience with it too, but I don't think I've tried it since 98se either.

I disable all power saving/shut-down type features as part of me windows tweaks, they just slow me down.

 

[RussSchultz]

It used to be iffy, but my modern motherboard coupled with XP works every time.

 

[nutball]

I use suspend-to-RAM hibernate rather than suspend-to-disc hibernate, it's even quicker. Like Russ said these used to be a real PITA, but with modern hardware, good drivers and XP, it's rock solid.

 

[suryad]

I second hibernating...if the power goes out while the machine is in standby there is a large chance I think of data corruption and I dont wanna deal with that...dont nobody want to deal with corrupted system files cause that leads to a reinstall...esp if you cant even boot in to use System Restore!!

 

[Sxotty]

By the way hibernating is the preffered method by those folks to make a boot quick and yeah it does work, but I thought he was implying a true shut down and reboot not just hibernating.