i am running win98se and had problems with it crashing,so i deleted the fat32 i had and reformatted my c drive now my computer is so very slow,what can i do to fix this?please someone help!

Without more information on your hardware, what you did, what happened and what "slow" means to you in this context, I couldn't begin to say, sorry... http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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my system is a hp vectra vl 5/90 ser3 win98se kept crashing and when i would go back to rerun setup i would not have enough room. so i went into fdisk and deleted the partition i had and reformated my c drive.now it takes about 5 min for a page to upload and even now as i am typing the letters are very far behind.it has never ran this slow before.

disk totals
811728896 by. ttl. disk space
335351808 by. in 4426 user files
1060864 by. in 224/dir.
6889472 by. in 103/hidden files
6505 file fragments (31%frag.)
468422656 by. avail. on disk

logical disk info.
media descr. f8
large part. yes
ttl. sectors 1588545
ttl. clusters 198176
byt.per sec. 512
sec.per clusters 8
#fats 2
1st sec. of fat 32
#of sec. per fat 1550
1st clu. of rt.dir. 5
# clu. in rt./dir 1
1st sec. of data area 3132

phys disk info.
drive # 80
heads 32
cylin. 788
sec.per track 63
start/head 1
start cyl. 0
start sec. 1
end.head 31
end.cyl. 787
end sec. 63

does that help you to help me at all? i sure hope so because this is making me crazy!!!!1

Did I read that right? Did it say disk is 31% fragmented? I would guess clean format of drive would fix that, but if it is that fragmented then I would guess that would be a problem, run disk defrag. Also, is it slow as can be on the internet, or in any application?

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Originally posted by ReddDogg:
Did I read that right? Did it say disk is 31% fragmented? I would guess clean format of drive would fix that, but if it is that fragmented then I would guess that would be a problem, run disk defrag. Also, is it slow as can be on the internet, or in any application?

yes i have ran cleandisk,defrag,and also nortons speed disk,optimization wiz.,speed start,and nothing has helped,this thing is slow period. everything it does is very,very,sluggish.

Have you been into the BIOS? Are internal and external caching enabled? if not enable them. Check video pallette snoop. Disable it. You might even set BIOS defaults, then go back and reset the hard drive and floopy info, leave everything else alone, except for disabling COM2 (2F8) if it's already disabled. If it has an option to set Performance Defaults, use that one instead.

Check out my site posted below and look for the BIOS Survival Guide, look through it and compare your settings to their recommendations. See if you find anything out of order. Take a look at the other BIOS sites too, a couple have very good info.

Also check the Performance tab in Device Manager and see if it says MS-DOS Compatibility Mode.

Is this system using a PCI video card or AGP? How much memory and what type?

And scandisk and defrag that puppy till it begs for mercy!

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