Comments on: W7-1: Windows 7 Beta http://www.odd-uk.com/technology/w7-1-windows-7-beta/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:06:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ian http://www.odd-uk.com/technology/w7-1-windows-7-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Ian Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:38:23 +0000 http://www.odd-uk.com/?p=203#comment-231 4 mins to boot XP sounds like a long time, and it could be that your hard drive isn't working optimally. I found this blog post after goggling for a similar problem that someone had on my forums, but the user in question has already fixed the problem by changing the drive type to AHCI in the BIOS: http://www.w7forums.com/enable-write-caching-t439.html Hope that helps :) Ian 4 mins to boot XP sounds like a long time, and it could be that your hard drive isn’t working optimally.

I found this blog post after goggling for a similar problem that someone had on my forums, but the user in question has already fixed the problem by changing the drive type to AHCI in the BIOS:

http://www.w7forums.com/enable-write-caching-t439.html

Hope that helps :)
Ian

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