Summary: Howdy, I can't see your hard drive being that slow compared to 10yrs ago. It could be your motherboard causing the problem. When hard drive access tim...
Summary: No, I installed the drive about 6 months ago and have a lot of programs on it and work. I defraged the hard drive and checked it for errors. I did not...
Summary: recently i tried to install a newer version of 4in1 drivers on my computer. after i installed it, my hard drive started to act funny. now it seems t...
Summary: I tested my PC at www.pcpitstop.com and it said my hard drive was slow. It's speed was 1.56 mb/s when it said it should be 2.22mb/s. I have noticed th...
Summary: I am having problems with my hard drive speed. It is only about 6 months old but its reading at about 2,300 kb/sec . . . which im fessing is bad. (I t...
Summary: After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with IBM they never did tell me the failure mode, reported by S.M.A.R.T. As the drive was OEM they washed their han...
Summary: I didn't yell at you..... I was trying to make the statement stand out. I'm not mad. I finally setup the computer next to this one so I can say exact...
Summary: I am rebuilding a computer for my niece and when I opened it up, I saw that it had a hard drive in it equal to the size of a 5-1/4 inch drive. The ha...
Summary: I was kinda waiting around to see if Doofus was coming back to give you some ideas, but maybe he went to bed. Anyway, if I give my best guess and it t...
Summary: All programs take about 3 times as long to run as they used to. I have just installed 128mb extra RAM, and the IBM tech replaced my Hard Drive, after ...
Summary: I have a AMD Athlon 1400mhx cpu, 256mb of Ram. Nvidia Gforce smx card and a ExcelStor Technology ES3220 20 GB Hard drive. I run from this an epson sc...
Summary: Currently have a HP Vectra VE6 350MHZ and 96 RAM. When I connect one hard drive (3GB) it works Ok and starts up immediately. When I remove this and RE...
Summary: Im doing this on behalf of my mate who knows nothing about computers, whats going on is the idiot decided to try and install xp on a slow pc and chan...
Summary: I have copied and Pasted all the responses to my inquiry so that I can repost and be updated... tell me about fdisk... that too I have only did once h...
Summary: Did you run thorough check? it could be bad sectors. It could be a virus, some viruses slow down the computer when the host files are being accessed. ...
Summary: I installed a second hard drive (WD 80 GB), about 4 months ago. All worked fine with both HD's. I shutdown my computer a few hours ago and it was st...
Summary: i recently installed a quantum fireball lm 30 gig hard drive and ever since my computer has slowed down dramatically. i have a 700 mHz amd athlon com...
Summary: Running Win 98 166mmx. Sometimes while I'm on the net the hard drive whirrs like crazy and it seems to slow my system down. Can't open browser windows...
Summary: I had windows 2000 on a hard drive, the computer was too slow for it so I wanted to put windows 98 on it, I didn’t format the drive because I wanted t...
Summary: Can anyone give me any suggestions? I had to reinstall Windows 95 and since then my second hard disk drive (two partitions, D and E, total 3Gb) can't ...
Summary: File Systems Unraveled Most of you have probably heard the term FAT, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS and partition table thrown around quite a bit. They seemed li...
Summary: I have had this problem before but lately it has got worse with my Hard Drive. It has never been really the quiet type before, i leave the computer on...
Summary: Hi, I've got a computer with win95a. The properties of my hard drive tells me that there is only 14 megs left, I tried deleting unecesary files multi...
Summary: I just upgraded my computer to a Pentium 233mmx and added 32 megs of EDO ram to give a total of 64 megs. I am running Win95. I leave my computer on ...
Summary: I've been having speed problems with my hard drives. They're going really slow and seems to work in bursts, like a CD-ROM drive sometimes does, excep...