My friend has a 667Mhz P3, 64MB Memory, and a 20gig harddrive.
It also has only 1 5.25 bay, and he wanted a CD-burner. . . and eventually a DVD burner.
I told him since he has only 1 bay, that he should only get a good DVD burner.
He got a TDK indiDVD drive, and it seems like a great drive. I have the TDK Velocd CDRW and love it. My CDRW has burnt over 500+ CD and not 1 of those were ever the slightest bit bad. It's great. . . :blah
After he got the drive and copied a few DVDs his computer is awfully slow. It's slow to boot, reboot, open an explorer window, and everything.
I realize he has only 64MB, and he is upgrading that soon. However, this problem has nothing to do with the RAM. I'm sure it's something else. I'm suspecting the FAT32 filesystem.
He is running a Win98SE install 2 months fresh. I've checked for viruses with an updated NortonAV2k3, and spyware with "search and destory" . . but it found nothing.
Something weird I found was the sub-directories. I found 21 subdirectories copied into itself. :huh For example:
C:/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads X15
.. and the "Send to" menu was screwed. When I went to use the "Send to" it said "Send to>Send to"
I checked out the "C:\Windows\sendto" and it seemed fine.
after a reboot this was corrected.
I ran Scandisk, then Defrag, and it's still slow. I've tweaked the "disk cache" and cleared temp files.
Here is what I think now:
That the FAT32 filesystem is funky after copying >2gig files from the DVD drive.
I suggest to my friend to get more memory and install Win2kpro. I'm sure that will fix his current problem.
However, does anybody have any clue why 98SE has crapped out so much. I have seen similar computers without DVDrs that run 98SE flashy and quick for months.
It also has only 1 5.25 bay, and he wanted a CD-burner. . . and eventually a DVD burner.
I told him since he has only 1 bay, that he should only get a good DVD burner.
He got a TDK indiDVD drive, and it seems like a great drive. I have the TDK Velocd CDRW and love it. My CDRW has burnt over 500+ CD and not 1 of those were ever the slightest bit bad. It's great. . . :blah
After he got the drive and copied a few DVDs his computer is awfully slow. It's slow to boot, reboot, open an explorer window, and everything.
I realize he has only 64MB, and he is upgrading that soon. However, this problem has nothing to do with the RAM. I'm sure it's something else. I'm suspecting the FAT32 filesystem.
He is running a Win98SE install 2 months fresh. I've checked for viruses with an updated NortonAV2k3, and spyware with "search and destory" . . but it found nothing.
Something weird I found was the sub-directories. I found 21 subdirectories copied into itself. :huh For example:
C:/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads/downloads X15
.. and the "Send to" menu was screwed. When I went to use the "Send to" it said "Send to>Send to"
I checked out the "C:\Windows\sendto" and it seemed fine.
after a reboot this was corrected.
I ran Scandisk, then Defrag, and it's still slow. I've tweaked the "disk cache" and cleared temp files.
Here is what I think now:
That the FAT32 filesystem is funky after copying >2gig files from the DVD drive.
I suggest to my friend to get more memory and install Win2kpro. I'm sure that will fix his current problem.
However, does anybody have any clue why 98SE has crapped out so much. I have seen similar computers without DVDrs that run 98SE flashy and quick for months.