Tech Junky

To speed up your hard disk, you need to configure a special buffer in the computer’s memory in order to enable it to better deal with interrupts made by the disk.
This tip is only recommended if you have 256MB RAM or higher.

Follow these steps:
1. Click on Start Menu | Run and type ‘SYSEDIT.EXE‘.
2. Expand the system.ini file window and locate a line called ‘[386enh]‘.
3. Press Enter to make a blank line after this one.
4. Type ‘Irq14=4096‘ (without quotes) in the blank line.
Note: This line is CASE sensitive !!
5. Click on the File menu and save it.
6. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
7. That’s it. Done.

You’ll notice speed improvement after you restart your machine. The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives, however there are reports that this tweak also works well with SCSI disks. In any case, it won’t harm your system, so why not try it yourself and do let me know what you experience.