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    Vista installing painfully slow

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ptpatil, Feb 27, 2008.

  1. ptpatil

    ptpatil Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I have a problem with my new t61p, whenever i install something on Vista, it goes very very slow, like 10mb files will take upwards of 8-10 minutes to copy.

    WHAT is happening!! I researched it a bit and a suggestion was to turn off indexing on the HDD etc. I did all that and its still slow!

    Anyone know why?
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    Do you have AHCI on in your bios? Do you have the chipset drivers installed?
     
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    ptpatil Notebook Enthusiast

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    I do have the chipset drivers installed, but i do not know what AHCI is.
    Microsoft installed it's drivers for the chipset though, but I removed those and replaced it with intel ones.
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    OK,

    AHCI is a set of optimizations controlled by your BIOS.

    Do an orderly shutdown and see if AHCI is enabled. Usually Vista is not installable from a DVD when the BIOS is set to AHCI.
     
    Renee, Feb 27, 2008
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    ptpatil Notebook Enthusiast

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    oh no, vista installed great, its just that installing things ON vista goes really slowly
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    Where are you installing them from?
     
    Renee, Feb 27, 2008
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