Before writing zeros to the drive, did you run the manufacturer's diagnostic
utility? If you can, use this utility to do a surface scan, as well. It
sounds like one possibility is that this drive may be on it's last legs.
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From: "Leander Haffner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:31 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] computer real slow
I wrote zero's to the hard drive and then reinstalled windows which took
several hours. what I mean is when it say 33 minutes remaining to load files
it took several hours instead of 33 minutes.Once I finally got windows
loaded it is just really slow, Like for something that should just take
seconds take sevearal minutes.
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