Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:41:03 +0000 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] win2k source directory
>Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:19:27 -0400 >From: "Gennadiy Tsygan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] win2k source directory > > > > > > Smartdrv helps improve disk access speeds.. Not by an awful lot though >in > > my experience (but then again I've not done many installs on lower >specced > > machines ...) > > >You are right, I don't remember it giving big gains in regular work, back >in the DOS days, but improvements during the first phase of NT/2000/XP >setup >are HUGE. I am talking at least 5 fold. Without smartdrive you will start >setup one day and finish next! If you set up other machines, you likely >booted with nt/2000 CD. In this case smartdrive is loaded automatically. Hmmm...I loaded W2k from an existing dos partition on the 70 and it ran in a couple of hours. Gave up cos I couldn't find a screen driver that worked :) Neil _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
