Extremely slow Win XP Pro!!

[klemme]

A few days ago I decided to reinstall Win XP Pro to clean up my system.
The result was horrifying!

My system now runs very slowly! All program startups takes more than 30 seconds og my mailprogram (Eudora 6) takes more than 4 minutes to start! That can't be right!
I have tried Adaware with newest update, Spybot search and destroy with newest update. I have removed q811493 security update. I have installed all others including sp1, which btw took more than 2 hours to install!
I tried services.msc and removed ALL services I didn't need according to BlackViper. I tried BootVis (although I wasn't neccesary. The boot time is not that long). I tried sfc /scannow. I tried sigverif. Still nothing!
My Taskmanager always says 100% cpu usage but it is different programs. Am I starting a program the mem usage meter slowly fills while the program gets ready to start.
It seems like it is the move fra HD to Ram that slow my system down especially after I tried to move some date from my 20 Gb drive to my old 6Gb drive. After that the system was really slow. Why is that?
I haven't tried to reformat. I was hoping to avoid that!
My computer is a Athlon XP 1700, 512 Mb 2700 Ram, 20 Gb IBM disc drive, 6 gb IBM disc drive.

BTW how can I change my bootdrive from the old 6 Gb drive (C-drive) to my newer 20 gb, which is to 10 Gb partitions?

Please help! I am desperate!

Thanks in advance
René Klemens

[ngc4414]

i think your gonna half to do a format and install...

and about which drive to boot from: the setting may be in the bios or you may have to make the 20gb the master on your ide channel

[NooNoo]

Boot drive - which drive is xp installed on? Which is assigned c: by bios?

[klemme]

My bootdrive is my 6 Gb old IBM drive (my c-drive) but my system is on the newer 20 Gb drive.

René Klemens

[NooNoo]

Remove the 6 gb drive, windows will no longer boot, then set the 20 gb to master (do not reconnect the 6gb) - boot from cd and do an inplace install.

[klemme]

What is an inplace install? Is it the same as Repair an existing Windows XP installation or what?

René Klemens

[NooNoo]

What is an inplace install? Is it the same as Repair an existing Windows XP installation or what?

René Klemens

Yup!

[techs]

I am curious, is the hard drive thrashing away? Do you have the indexing service enabled (you have to check on each drive).

[klemme]

Where can I see if indexing is enabled and where do I desable it?

[Jeff the Brit]

Open Windows Explorer, right-click drive, select Properties, untick "Allow indexing services to index this drive"

[techs]

Also, go to Start-Programs-Search and choose Change preferences and choose without Indexing service. Even though my hard drive had Indexing service enabled once I disabled it in Search it stopped the constant hard drive access and slow computer performance.

[silencio]

Have you considered the possibility that your IDE or other chipset drivers aren't installed correctly? If you open device manager do you have any yellow exclamation points? If so, what are they on?

[TripleRLtd]

I would go with NooNoo's solution.
I also suspect it might be a bad drive.
Run the manufacturers diag on both drives, especially the 6gig drive!!

[techs]

I just want to add that I have noticed twice recently that when a second hard drive is inserted into a WinXp machine the drive slows the computers way down unless the indexing is at least turned off in Search. I don't know if this is the result of some Windows Update but seeing it two times on customers computurs and once on my own computer I think something is up.