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Aelene
I am working on a Dell 8200 Dimension Series right now that is loaded
w/ Windows XP Home edition. 256MB, 1.9Ghz. The original problem it
came to me with was a complaint of slowness. The end party was not
interested in saving anything on the actual hard drive so I didn't
bother troubleshooting any original software issues.
I started by using the reinstallation disk and trying a repair on
Windows. That did not work, and the repair took hours upon hours to
complete. Next step, I wiped out the HD and re-partitioned/formatted
then reinstalled Windows XP again, and again the install took hours to
complete. The end result is the same each time, it will finish out the
install and it does not error out at all, if you wait it out it will
finish the install successfully and boot up to the O/S. My original
conclusion was that it was likely there was a bad sector on the hard
drive which was causing it to write data at such a slow rate.
We ordered a new HD, however once it came in the install process has
not changed at all, it is still taking hours to complete it. I have
changed out the IDE cable and have even switched the RAM to different
modules to see if maybe those things are having issues. Neither of
those things have worked.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? It's obviously a
hardware problem, but I'm not quite sure what. I need some one that is
smarter than me!
w/ Windows XP Home edition. 256MB, 1.9Ghz. The original problem it
came to me with was a complaint of slowness. The end party was not
interested in saving anything on the actual hard drive so I didn't
bother troubleshooting any original software issues.
I started by using the reinstallation disk and trying a repair on
Windows. That did not work, and the repair took hours upon hours to
complete. Next step, I wiped out the HD and re-partitioned/formatted
then reinstalled Windows XP again, and again the install took hours to
complete. The end result is the same each time, it will finish out the
install and it does not error out at all, if you wait it out it will
finish the install successfully and boot up to the O/S. My original
conclusion was that it was likely there was a bad sector on the hard
drive which was causing it to write data at such a slow rate.
We ordered a new HD, however once it came in the install process has
not changed at all, it is still taking hours to complete it. I have
changed out the IDE cable and have even switched the RAM to different
modules to see if maybe those things are having issues. Neither of
those things have worked.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? It's obviously a
hardware problem, but I'm not quite sure what. I need some one that is
smarter than me!