Disk Caching?

Question

Ever since i reinstalled my windows xp home w/sp2 onto my a computer that i built myself, it has been movie really slow. and i ran everest home edtion on it to see if i could find anything wrong, and it said that "dish cache was not enabled for this drive"
i have done a fresh install on this computer at least a dozen times, and have never had a problem with it before. this is the slowest it has ever run.
AMD Athlon XP 2400 (overclocked to 2.12Ghz from 2.0)
512mb DDR 2700
20GB HDD (1GB of disk allocated for page file)
Windows XP Home w/sp2

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Enabling the Disk Write Caching

1.Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

2.Click the Hardware tab.

3.Click Device Manager.

4.Click the plus sign (+) next to the Disk Drives branch to expand it.

5.Right-click the drive on which you want to enable or disable disk write caching, and then click Properties.

6.Click the Disk Properties tab.

7.Click to select or clear the Write Cache Enabled check box as appropriate.

8.Click OK.

Answer 2

You might want to check and see if your ATA controller is set up for DMA mode. If it's set up for PIO mode (maxes at 16MB/s burst) compared to DMA modes of 33/66/100/133 MB/s burst. right click on my computer, choose properties. Then hardware, then device manager, then expand IDE controllers. Check the setting on primary and secondary IDE controller. You can try and change it to UDMA mode and most of the time it'll work unless XP hits 5 errors then it'll lock permanently into PIO mode.

Answer 3

Have you tried download the disk utility from the disk vendor?

The message sounds like your SW is not using the cache memory on the disk drive.

Answer 4

enable writeback cacheing, go to your hdd properties and select hardware and you drive push propertys button and select policies and check the box that says enable writeback cacheing push apply and you ,may need to restasrt, and it should be fixed

Answer 5

your problem is that your using windows