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Slow Startup and degraded performance after disk crash
Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 6:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(2 messages posted)
I am running Windows XP Pro on a PC with 2 disk drives. Disk 1 (40GB) contained the
Operating System and most installed software. Disk 2 (60Gb) contained data.
I attempted to boot the machine a few days ago and it was making a strange noise
(a tick tocking sound) and failed to recognise Disk 2. This sound was coming from
Disk 2.
I disconnected the power and data cable from Disk 2 and tried booting again. Although
it booted successfully, it took about 60 seconds longer than usual. Most of this
extra time spent displaying the Windows XP logo and progress bar. It still does this
every time I boot. Also, after booting it feels like something is running in the
background and periodically hogging all system resources. This is most noticable
when playing sounds, they get very distorted.
I have run a full virus system scan with up-to-date signature files. No viruses were
found. I have also run Ad-aware and it only found a few annoying cookies.
I cleaned the registry to remove all invalid paths.
I have since installed a new Disk Drive as disk 2, and partioned it and formated
it exactly the same as the previous disk.
The slow startup and degraded performance are still a problem.
Has anyone got any other ideas ?
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