Slow Startup and degraded performance after disk crash

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I am running Windows XP Pro on a PC with 2 disk drives.
Disk 1 (40GB) contained the Operating System and most
installed software. Disk 2 (60Gb) contained data.

I attempted to boot the machine a few days ago and it was
making a strange noise (a tick tocking sound) and failed
to recognise Disk 2. This sound was coming from Disk 2.

I disconnected the power and data cable from Disk 2 and
tried booting again. Although it booted successfully, it
took about 60 seconds longer than usual. Most of this
extra time spent displaying the Windows XP logo and
progress bar. It still does this every time I boot. Also,
after booting it feels like something is running in the
background and periodically hogging all system resources.
This is most noticable when playing sounds, they get very
distorted.

I have run a full virus system scan with up-to-date
signature files. No viruses were found. I have also run
Ad-aware and it only found a few annoying cookies.

I cleaned the registry to remove all invalid paths.

I have since installed a new Disk Drive as disk 2, and
partioned it and formated it exactly the same as the
previous disk.

The slow startup and degraded performance are still a
problem.

Has anyone got any other ideas ?
 
I am running Windows XP Pro on a PC with 2 disk drives.
Disk 1 (40GB) contained the Operating System and most
installed software. Disk 2 (60Gb) contained data.

I attempted to boot the machine a few days ago and it was
making a strange noise (a tick tocking sound) and failed
to recognise Disk 2. This sound was coming from Disk 2.

I disconnected the power and data cable from Disk 2 and
tried booting again. Although it booted successfully, it
took about 60 seconds longer than usual. Most of this
extra time spent displaying the Windows XP logo and
progress bar. It still does this every time I boot. Also,
after booting it feels like something is running in the
background and periodically hogging all system resources.
This is most noticable when playing sounds, they get very
distorted.

I have run a full virus system scan with up-to-date
signature files. No viruses were found. I have also run
Ad-aware and it only found a few annoying cookies.

I cleaned the registry to remove all invalid paths.

I have since installed a new Disk Drive as disk 2, and
partioned it and formated it exactly the same as the
previous disk.

The slow startup and degraded performance are still a
problem.

Has anyone got any other ideas ?
Click to expand...
Look in the event viewer in case there are any related
messages. Check Disk Management to review the volumes
status.
Look in device manager for any obvious problems,
see if both drives have write cache enabled and
UDMA mode is in effect.
Go to the pcipitstop web site for a full system test!
Dave

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