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Maybe not the best place to ask for advice, but here's the situation:
I got a new computer about a month ago with twin Seagate 250gb hard drives. I loaded XP to one, and Vista to the other (just in case - the license lets me use both, so why not?). And after a while, XP stopped booting - frozen at the black "Windows XP" screen with the little bar going on at the bottom for over 20 minutes, the hard drive LED on the whole time. Vista loads fine.
So I boot into Vista, and run chkdsk on my XP drive. It finds errors and fixes them. XP now loads, but hard drive access is horrible - an average of .5mbps read/write, and a max of 1.2mbps. Same utility shows 70mbps for the same drive when run from Vista.
I'm thinking XP was corrupted, but am so lazy that I want a faster fix than reinstalling it. Any ideas?
 
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Often the fastest fix is reinstalling. :-\
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why dont just google and find links to 50 computer forums that have answered to this question already.
although that sounds like a problem nobody knows the answer to, probably reinstalling is the best idea.
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Germany2896 Posts
Is DMA active for your HDD?
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uh if its that slow the HDD is probably just bad. Run seatools on it. You can run it from the Vista side. Just DL, run long generic and long drive self test. If it says FAIL in big red letters then get a new HDD from seagate. They have a 5 year warranty (in the US anyway)
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The drive seems to be capable of working perfectly.
What is DMA? I'm pretty sure that Windows isn't trying to map memory to the hard drive - I have 4 gigs of ram. (Okay, 8, but 4 of them are unused for Windows).
Maybe I'll finally get off my ass and start using linux for work and just stick to Vista for games.
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I do not understand how people have such entrenched resistance to running a simple automated program that gives them a 100% answer on if their HDD is broken or not. If its not broken then re-install windows.
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On November 23 2008 05:28 maleorderbride wrote:
I do not understand how people have such entrenched resistance to running a simple automated program that gives them a 100% answer on if their HDD is broken or not. If its not broken then re-install windows.
It is a mystery, but it is the reason why tech support stays employed.
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I like your quote Archaic ;p
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Haha, thanks.
But continuing the point, I believe that people are afraid and untrusting of the computers.
My testimony:
Client 1 wants to transfer a calender to another computer.
I tell him to export it as a backup, and copy the exported calendar to the other computer
He doesn't listen, screws around for another 20 minutes, gives up, and I have to fix it the next day.
Oh well...
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