After Formating and FDISK still slow

[Jason]

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I have a dell desktop that is running WIN XP Home. It we acting VERY SLOW so
I fdisk, formated and reinstalled Win XP but it is still run VERY SLOW. It is
a P4 with 256 RAM and it did not run this slow when I got it. It just started

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Install the correct IDE/ATA drivers. Usually part of the motherboard
chipset drivers.

Also, PLEASE NOTE: FDISK is a "dangerous" MS-DOS command which was use to
set up the hard drives before.


"Jason" <Jason@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a dell desktop that is running WIN XP Home. It we acting VERY SLOW
>so
> I fdisk, formated and reinstalled Win XP but it is still run VERY SLOW. It
> is
> a P4 with 256 RAM and it did not run this slow when I got it. It just
> started