Reggkay wrote:
> 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
> .............................................................

I'm thinking that "fragment" might be your windows paging file. 
Somewhere in virtual memory you can control that. To test, go in and set 
it to no paging file, restart and look for the fragment, I bet it goes away.

Good Luck.

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