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08-22-2008, 02:34 AM
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New Hard Drive Slows Me Way Down...
I have a pc I built at the beginning of the year...works great, super fast with Vista 64 Ultimate. I only installed a seagate 500 gig hd, and it is about 80% full, so I bought a wd 750 gig hd to use as the storage hd... but now the pc runs horribly slow. I have 4gb ram and it shows I am at %100 ram usage even when I am down to my minimum processes...I have 3 sata ports on my motherboard, and plugged the new hd into sata2...with the original into sata1.
It also takes like 5 solid minutes to shut down now, that is new too. Can anyone give me a few things to try before I send back to newegg? |
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08-22-2008, 03:18 AM
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Download the Western Digital diagnostics and run them.
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08-22-2008, 09:54 PM
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08-23-2008, 02:19 AM
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Seatools is for Seagate/Maxtor drives. WD Diagnostics is for WD drives.
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08-26-2008, 04:14 PM
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I dl'ed the diagnostic tools, and it didn't show any problems...then I rebooted and everything worked great! Thanks for the help!!
Bill |
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