Replaced Hard Drive - XP Takes Forever To Load

[jmoree]

I just replaced the hard drive on my laptop and then installed XP.  Now it takes a good 30 minutes just to get my computer booted up.  I'm confused - and maybe there was more wrong with my laptop than the old hard drive I replaced.  Has anyone had this happen?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

So you replaced your laptop hard drive and it's loading slowly.
Maybe check all your connections or try reformatting and reinstalling.

[unlovedwarrior]

what hhd was in the laptop before and what kind did you replace it with??

why did you replace the orginal one??

[Calum]

Did you install all the drivers etc?
It would be a good idea to reformat and reinstall.

[GX1_Man]

We don't know the age, or even the make of the laptop at this point. 

[jmoree]

Ok...the hard drive that was in the laptop was an IBM Travelstar 4200 RPM 40 GB.  I put in a Seagate 5400 RPM 80 GB.  My laptop is an HP ze5170.  I've reformatted the new hard drive and reinstalled the OS twice now with the same results.  I replaced the original one because it crashed.

[patio]

Motherboard drivers installed ? ?

Check in Control Panel /System/Hardware/Device Manager...right clik IDE controller and report back what the properties say.

[jmoree]

I will be happy to give that information once this thing actually boots up.  I've been waiting an hour now and there is a progression line that is moving VERY slowly.  It's moving.  It's just moving at a snails pace. 

[jmoree]

Update - it never booted up after several retries.  So, reformatted hard drive and reinstalled XP.  Trying again.  If I can get Windows up and running, I'll provide the Device Manager info on IDE Controller.

[jmoree]

OK, in Device Manager, under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller" the following is listed:

ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

When I right-click on the ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller and choose Properties, there are a lot of tabs with information.  I'm not sure what information you were looking for, however, under Device Status, it says "This device is working properly."

[patio]

Does it say anywhere PIO mode by any chance ? ?

[jmoree]

I don't see anything that says PIO mode. 

[Dan@Dell]

Update your BIOS!!!

[patio]

Update your BIOS!!!

To be on the safe side i would ignore this advice for now...

[jmoree]

I'm not even sure what it means to update the BIOS.  I honestly am not sure what is wrong with this thing, but the IT guy at work today said that I could have purchased a hard drive that was just bad right out of the box.  Is that likely?