From: "David B" 

Replace the HD? Hey, I work on AS/400s. Well, I used to, if you catch my
drift. Again.

The drive was fairly full, but I moved a ton to a different machine and now
it has a lot of free space. It was tight for a while.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> How full is the HD?  Any chance you can replace the HD?
>
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> Glenn M.
>
>
> "David Blair"  wrote in message
> news:41ffcc75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I have a laptop, 2.8ghz Celeron, 512mb RAM, ultra slow 30 gig HD. (Hey,
> it's
>> a laptop, after all. Why DO they insist on using 4300 rpm drives?)
>>
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, this suddenly started running VERY slowly. Lots of
> HD
>> access. But no spyware shows up with AdAware or SpyBot, and no viruses
>> are
>> detected. I've defragged it about 7 zillion times.
>>
>> I get a bad block error showing my event viewer, but CHKDSK doesn't seem
> to
>> mark it when it runs at startup.
>>
>> Why would I be running so horrendously slow? Any ideas where to look? And
>> how do I get the bad block locked out?
>>
>>
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