Weird Dual boot problem. Help O/Cers!!

Sketch · 09-07-01, 06:25 PM

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.....

Sketch · 09-13-01, 04:31 PM

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.

David · 09-14-01, 01:31 PM

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.

09-07-01, 06:25 PM	Thread Starter #1
Sketch Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Tulsa, OK	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 Last edited by Sketch; 09-07-01 at 06:28 PM.
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09-09-01, 01:03 PM	#2
6502kid Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Peoria Ill	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.....
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09-13-01, 04:31 PM	Thread Starter #3
Sketch Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Tulsa, OK	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.
	QUOTE Thanks

09-14-01, 01:31 PM	#4
David Forums Super Moderator Overclockers.com Lead Editor Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Hiding from Americans and making pretty colours in a drybox in St Andrews	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) __________________ David J. Nelson MChem(Edin) PhD(Strath) AMRSC [Academia Profile] OC Forums Super Moderator // Overclockers.com Editor The Workhorse: [Lenovo W510] Intel Core i7-720QM / 8 GB DDR3 / nVidia Quadro FX880M / Crucial M4 256 GB SSD / Windows 7 The HTPC/Server: AMD Phenom X4 9650 / 6 GB DDR2 / nVidia 8300 / 5 TB of HDDs / Antec Solo II Case / Windows 7 The Gaming Rig: AMD Llano A6-3650 / 4 GB DDR3 / nVidia GTX260 / 2x 500 GB HDD in RAID0 / Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Case / Windows 7 The Benchmarking Setup: Various LGA775 chips / Asus Rampage Formula / 2 GB OCZ 1066 MHz DDR2 / nVidia Quadro NVS 285 / 320 GB HDD / Windows 7 My research fellowship is eating all my time, so I may be slow to reply to emails and private messages.
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09-14-01, 09:47 PM	#5
dolemitecomputer Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Florida	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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