From: "David B" 

Is that an offer to fund this venture?

I have many priorities (like the house note) ahead of that. It usually
hasn't been an issue. I think what is happening is that bad block is
interfering.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:41ffd54f{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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