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Hard drive causes serious lagging

Started by icerocker2255 , Jun 10 2007 08:15 AM

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icerocker2255

Posted 10 June 2007 - 08:15 AM

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I recently purchased and installed a new 250 GB Seagate hard drive. Everything is great except whenever the hard drive is accessed or something is being written to it, it takes FOREVER. While this is going on it lags the whole computer and causes one aggrivated user..lol. Any suggestions or tips?

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The Skeptic

Posted 10 June 2007 - 08:50 AM

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How full is drive?.

1: Run disk defragmantation.

2: Run checkdisk. Open my computer > right click the mew disk > properties > tools > error checking > check now > check the two boxes > start.