[OT] XP Trouble-shooting Suggestions?

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi rob,

Did you try to defragment your HD?

Le 21 janv. 06 à 17:20, Rob Cozens a écrit :

> Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed a growing degredation in  
> my TPC's disk access times, and I wonder if anyone has any  
> suggestions as to how I might determine the cause.
>
> Presently, I am setting the TPC to standby rather than shutting it  
> down, because shut down and startup both tend to hang with the disk  
> access light on.  A few days ago the "compact old files" option  
> took several hours to complete instead of the usual few minutes.
>
> I suspect those fixed-position disk blocks that store system info  
> are going bad and many CRC errors are happening for each successful  
> read or write; however it's possible that I've contracted a virus  
> or that some other hardware error is at the root of this.
>
> Can anyone suggest a trouble-shooting procedure that might help  
> isolate the problem?

Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet
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