slow Hp desktop after format....

Rol87 · Oct 18, 2010

Ok heres the problem I have a Hp Pavilion a1610n Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz with 1GB of RAM I did a fresh format and installed Xp because it had a windows file corrupted so i decided to format. well now it has taken about 8hrs to complete the whole format and install and it was acting really slow after the whole installation. So i decided to reformat and reinstall again and the same thing has happen it also took about 8hrs for the process. I am not sure what could cause this but before the file was corrupted it was working fine.

thanks

Pariah36022 · Oct 18, 2010

Verify the hard drive is in UDMA mode,and not pio mode. Google for directions.Hope that helps.

Jstn7477 · Oct 18, 2010

I'd download HD Tune and check out your hard drive. I've had dying hard drives that had ridiculously slow transfer speeds. Might also explain the corruption of the file you were talking about.

http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

The free version works fine.

garyinhere · Oct 18, 2010

is the 8 hrs including all the updates?

Pariah36022 · Oct 18, 2010

Try Seagate Seatools to verify integrety of the hard drive.

Link

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=552bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

DanTheMan · Oct 18, 2010

He may have been doing a "FULL" format - not quick

Pariah36022 · Oct 18, 2010

I had a problem yrs ago like his, and it wound up being that the harddrive was in pio mode not udma, and updating the chipset drivers fixed it.

Rol87 · Oct 19, 2010

DanTheMan said:
He may have been doing a "FULL" format - not quick

I had done both but they both were slow and when on the desktop it would lag really bad to open windows.

is the 8 hrs including all the updates?[/QUOTE said:
thats not including the "windows up dates" i did try them out the first time but it also took along time.

i am not sure how to set the hard drive to udma but i check on the bios and it did say udma 5 not sure if that how you check.

Rol87 · Oct 24, 2010

well thanks all for your help...it turns out that it was a hard drive going bad....did ran the HD Tune software and did show it had bad sectors

installed a new one and now working perfect

thanks everyone for the help

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