My laptop only has 512 MB of memory and I always have a lot of programs open. So, it’s always paging memory to the hard drive and it drives me crazy with how slow it goes! That damn hard drive light is always flashing at me. I had just assumed that my laptop hard drive wasn’t that fast. Well, I just stumbled across this link on Digg and thought I’d give it a try.

I went through all the steps and sure enough, my hard drive was set to PIO mode. How many months have I been cursing this thing because it’s so freakin’ slow? I followed the steps to change the mode back to Ultra DMA and everything worked. Although my drive only goes up to Ultra DMA 5, not Ultra DMA 6, I have already noticed a performance increase.

As always, make a backup of this branch of the registry before you begin working on it. Then give it a try; it worked for me.

http://neodon.blogspot.com/2006/07/little-known-tweak-to-boost-hard-drive.html

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