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New HD - 7/5/2010 11:00:30 PM

scott64

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My one year old new 500GB HD died the other day. Had a tech person look it over and I decided to install a new one for about $180. Got it home and installed the OS. Now my computer crawls along like a snail.

Can't run an AE turn with out seeing the same animation for 5 minutes. Looking around I see my OS is install on the I drive.

I do have a C drive but that is 127 GB former slave, before it was my I drive. I have reinstalled my sound, my display drivers, except my ATI Catalyst Control fails at the very end of installation for some reason or another. I am running out of things to look into as to why my computer is super slow. I do have 2 GB of memory.

Any suggestions?

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RE: New HD - 7/5/2010 11:37:12 PM

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Is it IDE or SATA?

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RE: New HD - 7/6/2010 1:26:46 AM

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Windows loves the C drive. The installations are probably failing because they are hard coded to look for windows on C. My solution may not be the fastest but I would reconfigure the drives so that the larger (if that is what you want) is the C (first HD). I would then reinstall windows and such. I had this happen when I got a larger sata drive, I had two, and it was a pain (I had the same issue with the ATI install, it is hard coded for C).

I tend to do things rather clinky but that is what I would do, rearrange the drives, double check them in bios and reinstall windows on the "new" c drive (checking the drive sizes before I committed to make sure I had the right one). This way, IMHO, windows "knows" it is on C and all will bw configured correctly. If you leave it as I you may run into other install issues as almost everything looks for windows to be on C

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RE: New HD - 7/6/2010 1:43:23 AM

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Find a new tech person!

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RE: New HD - 7/6/2010 1:52:31 AM

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Get TWO! Techie geeks need love, too!

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RE: New HD - 7/6/2010 2:13:57 AM

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Is it IDE or SATA?

SATA. I updated my display driver and loaded my Monitor drivers, runs a little better. I can at least get through an AE turn.

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RE: New HD - 7/6/2010 2:17:11 AM

scott64

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And installed SP 3

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RE: New HD - 8/7/2010 8:14:35 AM

72M

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Either it's on the wrong connector, or it's not selected as primary in BIOS. Or did you buy an usb external one? :P
If you change your system HDD, this is one of the cases where you need to do a fresh format and reinstall of everything. (well, sometimes system drive copied to external hdd will work, sometimes)

If your tech support person works for any retailer, don't trust him 100% get a second opinion. What kind of HDD did you get for 180 bucks anyways?

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RE: New HD - 8/30/2010 7:54:47 AM

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hiii

i m new in this forums and i just need a help in it
and i wish that this site will response me well,,,

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