View Full Version : Weird Dual boot problem. Help O/Cers!!
Ok, I have a Raid-0 array that I had formated to one partion @ 60 gigs with Win98SE. I used ghost 2001 to image the drive so I could repartion to do a dual boot with 2000 pro. I destroyed the array, recreated it, partioned it into two drives and formated both. I then imaged my Win98 back to the boot drive C:\. Here is where it gets weird, I can't remeber if I checked and went into Win98 before the next step, but anyway. So, I installed 2000 pro onto the D: and it went flawlessly, matter of fact I love it, runs great. The dual boot works perfectly except for one flaw. When booting into Win98 it runs soooooo Slooooooooww! I mean you would think this thing was a P-75 processer. So I ask of you, what could be the problem??? I'm thinking I will copy the boot.ini and reinstall Win98 on the C: and then put the boot.ini back a hope that will solve my problem. If anyone else has a better Idea please let me know. Thanks
6502kid
09-09-01, 01:03 PM
That is exactly what I would try first.
You might even disconnect or disable that D: drive when
re-installing Win98, then restoring D: after.....
Thank you very much to the one and only person to post, but I have figured it out. For some reason I had a corrupt NIC driver. As soon as the driver was loaded from the disk and the system rebooted everything slowed waaaaayyyyyy down to 33 mhz days. I went to the NIC's manufacturs driver page, downloaded a new driver and all was well. Weirdest thing I have every came across on the software side. But once again, thank you for atleast attempting to help solve my proplem.
I'd be careful with a RAID 0 array, if one drive goes...
PS.
You may be doing this already, but put your win2k swap file on the win98 disk and vice versa = better performance (not so sure with a RAID array)
dolemitecomputer
09-14-01, 09:47 PM
You might have already tried this but have you defragmented the drive? Whenever I restore a image with Drive Image I do need to do that to get things in order. I would suggest using a program like Diskeeper if you can.
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