Hd Problem, Too Slow

pidr1nhu · May 23, 2006, 02:42 PM

Hi,

I have got a problem, an unexpected one, my hd was working wonderfully but suddenly it became to work so slow and below the normal acceptable rates, take a look at the test done in HD TACH:

I really don't know what happened..I usually defragment it and scan for viruses, spywares and malware in general once a week, I also use Tuneup 2006 utilities to improve the system functioning; everything was doing great until this mysterious problem.
Could anyone suggest anything to be tested, just give a tip.

Regards.

mkk · May 23, 2006, 05:09 PM

Looks like the drive is running in a legacy PIO mode. Check the device manager (IDE controller) if there is a listing of what mode it runs at, and raise to best DMA if available. Maybe a similar setting in the motherboard BIOS also has effect on this.

pidr1nhu · May 25, 2006, 01:56 PM

Hi mkk,

I was editing texts in microsoft word and syncing some data to my palmtop, then i decided to restart the system and when it came back, it was working completely lagged and the problem persists.

Could the hd suddenly 'reduce' its speedy?
Can some kind of virus change it by itself?

Regards.