DizzyD1624705734 Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 Hi My notebook recently have been taking very long time to boot either from a hibernate session or a fresh start. I have defrag the HDD and clean it up using system tools. Even when it hibernates, it take very long to hibernate. And when I do a shut down I see some blue screen which says "dump physical memory etc" and I cannot catch it fast enough. Anyone know what I should check? Is it a OS issues? I am on Wins XP SP2. Thanks a lot!
DizzyD1624705734 Posted August 23, 2008 Author Posted August 23, 2008 Bro How best can I do a clone of my HDD? I can do the data migration but the softwares is a bit tough to reinstall. cheers
Guest queks Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 just reinstall your windows should be enough. Do a clean install, not repair install.
DizzyD1624705734 Posted August 23, 2008 Author Posted August 23, 2008 just reinstall your windows should be enough. Do a clean install, not repair install. HI queks thanks...will this override my other softwares and data? thanks
Guest queks Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 this is as good as format and reinstall. Thats why its a good practise to keep software and os on c drive and data on d drive. So you only need to format and reinstall c drive without affecting d drive. You can clone an image of the c drive after you install all your os and software so it will be easier to restore back later without reinstalling everything.
Knight_Rider Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 Bro How best can I do a clone of my HDD? I can do the data migration but the softwares is a bit tough to reinstall. cheers Acronis® True Image is most popular. An old copy of Norton ghost(if can borrow) is fine too.
vink Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 If your backup HDD happened to be a maxtor or seagate, you can download a free hdd clone software called Maxblast from their website which is a exact licenced copy of the Acronis true image.
DizzyD1624705734 Posted August 30, 2008 Author Posted August 30, 2008 Friends I have replaced my HDD and change to a set of RAM I have on spare. However the slow hibernating and session resume is still taking long time. Any other solutions i should evaluate? Thanks
Mr. Big Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Friends I have replaced my HDD and change to a set of RAM I have on spare. However the slow hibernating and session resume is still taking long time. Any other solutions i should evaluate? Thanks If OS is Windows XP, go to Start, Run and type msconfig. Choose selective start-up (default is normal start-up). Un-click most of the options leaving the anti-virus intact. Reboot and there you are.
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