very SLOW hard drive under xp pro... heeelp

[mr. herman]

[Wiggo]

Go into the device manager and uninstall the IDE controller then reboot.

[mr. herman]

i've already done that

[PersianImmortal]

The only helpful advice I can give is in my VIA driver FAQ anyway, but obviously you have to check your cabling and make sure the settings in the BIOS are correct.

Aside from that, the only other thing is to run Cacheman (see my first XP Guide: http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...review&dId=324) and use all my recommended settings for your disk and file caches.