Is my diagnosis correct?

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Roger Neilson

I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from the
C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer started -
form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
anything to the autoruns at all.

Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but if
they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything done.

I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the detail.
When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was defraggged
just afew weeks ago.

I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any second
opinions.

Roger
 
Hi Roger

Try defragging the C drive again - I normally do it once a week. Also try
Disk Cleanup.
 
I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read anything else).

Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.
 
Where do I find the event log?

Thanks

Roger
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after
several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read
anything else).

Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.
 
Backup your data now! I lost a hard drive, with 3 years worth of data, to
just such a disk failure.
 
To open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | Clcik OK

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Roger said:
I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from the
C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer started -
form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
anything to the autoruns at all.

Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but if
they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything done.

I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the detail.
When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was defraggged
just afew weeks ago.

I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any second
opinions.

Roger

How much free space do you have on c: ?

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