Hey guys, I am haveing a few quirks with my new HD. I cloned it from my old one (which was very solid). Every since I did the cloning, I have had to work out some bugs. But now I am getting a lot of freeze-ups followed by a long beeping from my mobo. Do you guys know what that long beeeeeeeeeeep means? Any suggestions? mobo: MSI KT3V MS-6712 Any help as always, is appreciated. thanks jC.

Hi DId you have the same ammount of ram when you loaded the os on the old hard drive ? Have you added any new components with theception of the new drive ? Was the old drive slower than the new one? Which tool did you use to clone the os ? Just going ton the little info you gave I would strongly recommend to save what you cant afford to loose and relaod the os, you will see a huge diference. Good luck Regards Janos

Janos, Thanks for the reply.. *yes I did have the same ram *I have added a new sound card *yes, the old hd was a 40gig 2mb cache Seagate and the new hd is a 200gig 8mb cache Maxtor. *I used the included MaxBlast3 for the cloning. I forgot to mention that I have a mild bios overclock. I was running a 143fsb now I dropped it to 140 and I have been running all day without a crach. So I will see if that is the problem. Dont see how I could be stable with the other inferior drive and less stable with this new one. I have the new drive partioned. How would I clear out the 1st partition to re-install the OS? jC.

Hi Jc The fact you have some stability says things have altered by the cloan. I would very much recomend you save everything you cant afford to loose and relaod, set your system the way you wish to run it, delete all the partitons and start from scratch. There will be a huge difference, try and keep the primary partition down in size, and the fact its a 8 meg cache drive makes huge diff the way the head write the OS to the HDD. Also I bealive the maxtor is a ATA 133 correct ? and the seagate ata 100. I would sugest the primary to be no biger than 20 gig, this will conatin the OS within a respectable space, easy to controll and defrag. Keep the clutter on the C drive to a minimum, you have 200 dont crowd the os with applications that you can run from the next partition. You will also find that when you reload xp will throw the swap file right at the start of the drive. Where it should be. The rest of the drives you can set as you wish. Bit of messing about but it will be worth it in the long run. You may want to play before doing a final setup, the fact you have so much ram, try running XP without a swap file, force the entire operating system into the ram and run it from there. I think you will see the difference. Let me know how you go with it when you decide what to do, have fun Regards Janos

Ooops missed you second bit sorry. If you only want to clean the C drive just insert the XP disc in the cd rom. Change your boot order to boot from the cd rom. Allow the xp installer to proceed with the instalation untill it reaches the point where it shows you the partitions on your drive. Highlit the partition and hit the appropriate letter on the keyboard to delete it. Once deleted reboot, and follow the entire procedure again till you ge to the same point, select the unused space which will be showing there and recreate the primary partition. from that point just follow instructions on screen. WARNING --- xp has been known to change drive letter assignments, when formating in NTFS so you could find yourself having the OS on a F drive or something simmilar. So the best and easiest way, is what i sugested in my previous post. And if you take your time with it enjoy a year or two without a glitch from the OS. Hope that helps. Janos