From: "Glenn Meadows" 

HD's are pretty inexpensive for 5400 rpm drives, and doing a GHOST of the
drive to a new one can gain a bunch of speed.

--
Glenn M.


"David B"  wrote in message
news:41ffd240$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
> news:41ffce16{at}w3.nls.net...
> > How full is the HD?  Any chance you can replace the HD?
> >
> > --
> > 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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