Tell us more about "Whiting Out". I'm not clear what this actually looks
like, but it doesn't sound like a a hard drive problem.
It couldn't hurt to find and delete this large fragment.
Have you defragged recently?
Run task manager and see what processes are taking up the most
memory/CPU cycles.
How much memory do you have, and how much hard drive space is left? Do
you have a scratch drive for Photoshop?


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive problem?
From: Reggkay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, August 20, 2009 10:45 pm
To: [log in to unmask]

First let me say thank you for all your help and information that you 
have given me on this problem.
I followed the advise and ran scan disk from safe mode. Everything 
appeared to be working fine, still had that 3.3gb fragment when 
finished, but everything was back up to speed and seemed to be working 
fine until this evening. I am a hobby photographer and my picture files 
average around 28 mbs. Normally the computer has no problem dealing 
with 2-3 of them being opened and working on them. This evening I only 
had photoshop and 1 picture that I was working on and the screen started

'whiteing' out except for the task bar and the top bar of photoshop and 
the system slowed to a crawl. Does this mean that either my picture 
files or photoshop is part of that fragment? How would I find out? How 
do I tell if the hard drive is starting to go bad? Recommendations? 
Advise?
Thanks in advance,
Regina Long

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