carlangas Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 hi all, just a quick question here, ive got a pc that has been healthy for some years now. well at times (not all the time) it becomes super slow, it almost stalles. I suspect its got something to do with the cd drive because sometimes the pc's working fine and when I press the eject button it wont respond, then it sort of freezes up. it does that with certain pc games on cd rom too and sometimes with no cd inserted. i dont think its a virus, ive scanned for viruses, did a windows diagnostic check with no luck. would like to hear suggestions on how to find n fix whatevers wrong. p4 2.5mhz windows xp sp2 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 depends on how you have your HD setup, i have windows and software installed on one partition and then various other partitions for file storage, libuary's etc. This means i can do a complete fresh install of windows and software with little effort, so if i have problems i tend to wipe the lot and start again. Probably sounds extreme but i never waste time tracking down the problem, a couple of hours and its sorted!! i could equally speed it up by creating a ghousted version of my install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlangas Posted February 14, 2006 Author Share Posted February 14, 2006 good idea James, but I dont have my drive partitioned. thanks for replying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Sounds like now may be an ideal time to set it up this way. A second point i guess about reinstalling is if the problem persists after a fresh install it goes a long way to determining the problem is hardware based rarther than software based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlangas Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 ok, but I thought that you can only partition a drive when its brand new and unformated. do you just reformat the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Thats right, make sure you back up all the information you need from it first tho. Then during reinstalling windows delete the existing partition and create a new one specifing its size (i'd suggest at least 10GIG for windows install and a few apps, if you've plenty of space go for 20GIG) once you've installed windows on this partition you can then create further partitions on the drive using windows disk management tools, and keep your files separate on these extra partitions. another benefit can be if your hard drive break downs, i had situations in the past were the my machine wouldn't boot up as the boot disk had become corrupt. i bought a new HD to install windows on and once booted up i could still gain access to the remaining partitions and retrieve my files. james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 ok, but I thought that you can only partition a drive when its brand new and unformated. do you just reformat the drive? Actually you don't have to wipe a drive clean and start from scratch. You can use a program like Partition Magic. It reads your drive, and can reallocate your space and create partitions. It works even with an OS and software installed already and doesn't screw anything up... nice little program. http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/ There might be other free progs that do the same thing, never really looked, I've just always used an older version of Patition Magic that I bought a long time ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlangas Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 thats a great program. thanks both for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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