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Name: post8k
Date: December 20, 2004 at 15:15:26 Pacific
Subject: Strange problem with the Hard-Drive
OS: Windows XP professional s
CPU/Ram: P4 @ 3.0ghz w/ht and 512m
Comment:

I have a western digital hd, 7200rpm, 160gb, on a pentium 4 computer. The regular speed of the hd is 50mb/sec

Almost every morning when i turn the computer on, the speed of the hd is 4mb/sec.
I use windows restore point to restore the computer to the day before and the speed is immidiatly back at 50mb/sec.

What is happening? Why is the hd speed dropping by 10 times?

Anyone have any ideas...

Thanks in advance !!


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Response Number 1
Name: jefro
Date: December 20, 2004 at 15:28:49 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Might use the OEM software to test. See what WD offers to test their drives or get something like the ultimate boot disk.


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Response Number 2
Name: kawlv1
Date: December 20, 2004 at 16:23:11 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Have you tried reinstalling windows. Try to shut down all programs that start with windows and see if that helped in the performanece issue with the Hard Drive.


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Response Number 3
Name: post8k
Date: December 20, 2004 at 17:29:40 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

its even slow during safe mode boot.

I dont need any speed boosts, i just need my original speed...


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