> The problem is OBVIOUSLY within the HD
To you maybe but to anyone else no.
Once again forget, that is spelt F O R G E T the hard disk. If you are
talking about download speeds from the internet that is a networking
problem. That you appear to have completely failed to understand or
accept this after over a dozen posts indicates that it is virtually
pointless me continuing.
> Any constructive thoughts would be appreciated
But would you recognise or understand it?
Let me try one last time though I suspect that I am yet again wasting your
and my time.
For these purposes you have THREE computer systems albeit that they each
have identical hardware other than for the hard disk. Each has their own
copy of the operating system, drivers and other installed software. It is
the operating system that handles your net connection, not, surprising as
it may seem to you, the hard disk. OK, if you were on a gigabit
connection then maybe hard disk write speeds could be a limiting factor
and could influence your download speed but your are not on a gigabit link
so therefore the physical hard disk is an irrelevance unless it happens to
be failing.
So, what is different about the three systems? The operating system and
other installed software, and it appears one of those systems has a
networking problem - hence my advice to post here for further help. Such
problem might be with the network configuration and I have already
suggested that one thing you might want to check is the values for RWIN
and MTU for each system, but could also be the result of one system having
an application (possibly malware) that is affecting the connection speeds.
A good place to start might be to uninstall and reinstall the networking
components on the system having problems.
--
Mike Maltby
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CLR <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Well Mike, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my posts,
> and I've tried to make my situation clear, but your responses
> indicate that you just don't grasp what I am trying to describe.
> I'll try once more in the hopes that someone can see the problem as
> it is, and offer some constructive advice.
>
> I am talking about ONE computer system, it has a removable hard disk
> chassis for Drive C. I have three different hard drives that I can
> plug in and boot up with, one at a time. With my main HD in place, I
> only get a 100-200kb download speed reading from www.pcpitstop.com
> where it should be between 2000-3000kb for my Roadrunner cable
> connection. With either one of the other two HD's, (in the SAME
> computer but by themselves) I get the normal 2000-3000kb rating.
> The problem is OBVIOUSLY within the HD, (either mechanical or the
> software), since that is the only thing being changed. It would seem
> NOT to be the hardware, as such because the drive seems to function
> normally in all other respects. I am convinced that my install of
> WinMe on this one drive has been corrupted in some was as to be the
> source of the problem.
>
> My real question is if it is possible to "refresh" my WinMe install
> without having to reformat the entire drive and totally re-installing
> WinMe. I feel sure a total re-do would solve the problem, but only
> as a last resort as I do not wish to disturb my email, drivers, and
> other software if possible.
>
> Any constructive thoughts would be appreciated.
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