Hi everyone,
I just got a new 400GB Samsung hard disk a few days ago. The problem is that it's very slow. If you've seen what a fragmented drive is like, this is the same.
Say I have Winamp going and then open a Firefox window, the music stutters and drags and sounds generally crap until firefox opens completely. The same goes when anything is loading.
Also when I'm playing games it will slow me down too because it's loading constantly. I know it's the hard disk because I look at the HD activity light and it's almost always flashing.
Everything else with my pc is normal, I have 512MB RAM and 3Ghz cpu. It only started happening when I put my new hard disk in.
At first I thought it WAS fragmented, due to the symptoms I listed above, but I de-fragmented and it's still slow.
One thing I've thought of is to put my old HD (80GB) as master and the new one as slave, then only use the new one when I need to.
I did a Computer course a few years ago so I know some of the basics but maybe I'm breaking a very simple rule that I don't know about?
I just got a new 400GB Samsung hard disk a few days ago. The problem is that it's very slow. If you've seen what a fragmented drive is like, this is the same.
Say I have Winamp going and then open a Firefox window, the music stutters and drags and sounds generally crap until firefox opens completely. The same goes when anything is loading.
Also when I'm playing games it will slow me down too because it's loading constantly. I know it's the hard disk because I look at the HD activity light and it's almost always flashing.
Everything else with my pc is normal, I have 512MB RAM and 3Ghz cpu. It only started happening when I put my new hard disk in.
At first I thought it WAS fragmented, due to the symptoms I listed above, but I de-fragmented and it's still slow.
One thing I've thought of is to put my old HD (80GB) as master and the new one as slave, then only use the new one when I need to.
I did a Computer course a few years ago so I know some of the basics but maybe I'm breaking a very simple rule that I don't know about?
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