Win 2000 install CD required constantly by machine

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We have a PC that is Windows 2000 Professional that
has been performing sluggishly. About a month ago, the
user was having trouble with Internet Explorer--he'd
somehow trashed it. I downloaded and upgraded him to IE
v. 6. Ever since then, the machine requires the Win 2000
installation media in the CD drive at all times. If you
remove it, it tells you that protected files have been
altered and it needs to replace them. The CD drive sounds
as if it is running pretty much all the time, as if the
machine is constantly reading this disk. I'm not sure if
the sluggish performance is related to the Win 2000 CD
required issue or not; however both issues are extremely
frustrating, and I'm considering re-installing the
operating system. Note, I have service pack 3 on the
machine. I am running McAfee and am reasonably confident
there is no virus on the machine. I've used msconfig and
cleaned up the start up files. This is a relatively new
machine (about 6 months old) with a very fast processor
and a very large hard drive; only about 5 percent of the
hard drive is in use, although that represents a TON of
files. I've run defrag and checkdsk; the disk did need to
be defragged, but completing that resulted in no
performance improvements.

Note: I have run spybot and adaware. They did find a few
problems and fixed them, but have had no impact on the
performance, or the CD issue.

Sorry to be so wordy, but I'm
going crazy trying to fix this problem. Thanks for any
advice,
Brooke
 
I would learn towards saying yes, the slow operation is
due to the accessing the cd, as it's much slower then the
hard drive.

I would also suspect your hard drive is getting ready to
fail, yes it's possible even with a new drive.

try running the repair install from the install cd see if
that fixes the accessing the cd problem.
 
Brooke wrote in
We have a PC that is Windows 2000 Professional that
has been performing sluggishly. About a month ago, the
user was having trouble with Internet Explorer--he'd
somehow trashed it. I downloaded and upgraded him to IE
v. 6. Ever since then, the machine requires the Win 2000
installation media in the CD drive at all times. If you
remove it, it tells you that protected files have been
altered and it needs to replace them. The CD drive sounds
as if it is running pretty much all the time, as if the
machine is constantly reading this disk. I'm not sure if
the sluggish performance is related to the Win 2000 CD
required issue or not; however both issues are extremely
frustrating, and I'm considering re-installing the
operating system. Note, I have service pack 3 on the
machine. I am running McAfee and am reasonably confident
there is no virus on the machine. I've used msconfig and
cleaned up the start up files. This is a relatively new
machine (about 6 months old) with a very fast processor
and a very large hard drive; only about 5 percent of the
hard drive is in use, although that represents a TON of
files. I've run defrag and checkdsk; the disk did need to
be defragged, but completing that resulted in no
performance improvements.

Note: I have run spybot and adaware. They did find a few
problems and fixed them, but have had no impact on the
performance, or the CD issue.

Sorry to be so wordy, but I'm
going crazy trying to fix this problem. Thanks for any
advice,
Brooke
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You can try a Repair Install over the existing one and re-install the
service packs and Hotfixes...

Does %systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ exist? You can lookup in
Windows Help aboout SFC (systemn file checker) and try that.

In all cases have a backup!
 
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