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Fri 18/02/05 at 10:17
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"Bicycle"
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Righty.

Well, I'm a pretty impatient person, and one thing I absolutely hate is having to wait for my PC to boot up and / or shut down.

So I thought to myslef - "Why not use the old, smaller drive (empty, currently) to boot, but keep this one as it is. Maybe I could even delete the Windows XP partition..."

But is this possible? Would this slow down the transfer rate for the drive I'm using to boot now?

Would I have to change the old drive to master and the new one to slave?
Fri 18/02/05 at 23:29
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"Bicycle"
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Same.

Trying the "ultra-fast boot" in TweakXP. Hope it works... Ya never know.
Fri 18/02/05 at 23:21
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"aka memo aaka gayby"
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Defragging takes me about 10 minutes.
Fri 18/02/05 at 23:19
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"Bicycle"
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Work?

Work is for fools...

I work on my PC.
Fri 18/02/05 at 21:03
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"Just ram it in!"
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Fri 18/02/05 at 15:13
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Run, type msconfig, startup tab.
Fri 18/02/05 at 15:09
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"Bicycle"
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How would I find out?
Fri 18/02/05 at 14:46
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Mine loads up within 30 seconds. How many startup processes do you have?
Fri 18/02/05 at 13:27
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"Bicycle"
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Have a SATA drive, 200GB, have 1GB of RAM.
Fri 18/02/05 at 13:18
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"Just ram it in!"
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I don’t think it is possible to boot from slave unless you make it a master, but then you are just defying the point of doing it. The only thing I can suggest if you want quicker boot up times is more ram, 1GB is perfect. A new faster Hard Drive would help, SATA ones are very cheap now.
Fri 18/02/05 at 10:17
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"Bicycle"
Posts: 4,899
Righty.

Well, I'm a pretty impatient person, and one thing I absolutely hate is having to wait for my PC to boot up and / or shut down.

So I thought to myslef - "Why not use the old, smaller drive (empty, currently) to boot, but keep this one as it is. Maybe I could even delete the Windows XP partition..."

But is this possible? Would this slow down the transfer rate for the drive I'm using to boot now?

Would I have to change the old drive to master and the new one to slave?

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