Increasing Drive Performance

1. 
   You can likely increase your Hard Drive or CD ROM performance by:
   
       Opening up the Device Manager
       Double click on the CD or Hard Drive
       Click on the Settings tab
       If you have a DMA box that is not grayed out, check that box
       Reboot when prompted
       When Windows starts again, see if that box is still checked.
       This is especially beneficial with the newer UDMA drives which are supported by Win xp
       This will also greatly reduce CPU utilization during hard drive activity.