Hello Changhsu,

Wednesday, September 22, 1999, 9:33:53 PM, you wrote:

CPL> Greetings,

CPL> I'm trying to install NT4. I noticed that it was extremely slow copying
CPL> files if I do it in DOS while it was much faster in Win95. (It took over 30
CPL> minutes under DOS and probably less than 10 munites under Windows.) It
CPL> didn't work in Win95 and somehow it booted right back Win95 after it
CPL> finished copying all files to a temporary folder in C drive. I kind of
CPL> remember the slow speed relating smart drive or something not installed in
CPL> DOS. How can I make the copy faster during the installation process (I boot
CPL> the system with Win95 startup disk)?

CPL> BTW, I used to hate that I had to create 3 setup disks everytime I install
CPL> WinNT. I found I can add /x ("winnt /x") to skip that process... Also
CPL> "setup /is" to skip check disks for install win98....

On installing, Win98/NT will write&read a lot of small files... add
Smartdrive to autoexec.bat &| config.sys and the speed will soar.

You may also run from DOS command line if HIMEM is loaded :
smartdrv <size, in k> <drive>
like smartdrv 4096 +c +d

+ allows write-caching, useful and faster

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