Hard drive motor drags

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On boot up and shut down my hard drive motor slows to a crawl. The head is
still reading, but it could take ten minutes to shut down or twenty to boot.
It drags when it starts to load the menu screen prompting me to click on my
personal user profile to enter Windows. And I'm noticing it only really
seems to drag when the blue screens are showing on startup or shutdown.

As of recent I have to start the computer as I nomally do, wait for the blue
screen to start loading, then cut the power to the system and reboot
selecting the Start Windows Normally option just after POST. From then on
out it will boot normally.

I have installed SP2 and can't think of any outstanding recent events that
might have caused this problem.
 
Time for a defrag or scandisk?


| On boot up and shut down my hard drive motor slows to a crawl. The head
is
| still reading, but it could take ten minutes to shut down or twenty to
boot.
| It drags when it starts to load the menu screen prompting me to click on
my
| personal user profile to enter Windows. And I'm noticing it only really
| seems to drag when the blue screens are showing on startup or shutdown.
|
| As of recent I have to start the computer as I nomally do, wait for the
blue
| screen to start loading, then cut the power to the system and reboot
| selecting the Start Windows Normally option just after POST. From then on
| out it will boot normally.
|
| I have installed SP2 and can't think of any outstanding recent events that
| might have caused this problem.
 
Or a hard drive? :-(

Time for a defrag or scandisk?


| On boot up and shut down my hard drive motor slows to a crawl. The
| head
is
| still reading, but it could take ten minutes to shut down or twenty
| to
boot.
| It drags when it starts to load the menu screen prompting me to click
| on
my
| personal user profile to enter Windows. And I'm noticing it only
| really seems to drag when the blue screens are showing on startup or
| shutdown.
|
| As of recent I have to start the computer as I nomally do, wait for
| the
blue
| screen to start loading, then cut the power to the system and reboot
| selecting the Start Windows Normally option just after POST. From
| then on out it will boot normally.
|
| I have installed SP2 and can't think of any outstanding recent events
| that might have caused this problem.
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Calli said:
On boot up and shut down my hard drive motor slows to a crawl. The head is
still reading, but it could take ten minutes to shut down or twenty to boot.
It drags when it starts to load the menu screen prompting me to click on my
personal user profile to enter Windows. And I'm noticing it only really
seems to drag when the blue screens are showing on startup or shutdown.

As of recent I have to start the computer as I nomally do, wait for the blue
screen to start loading, then cut the power to the system and reboot
selecting the Start Windows Normally option just after POST. From then on
out it will boot normally.

I have installed SP2 and can't think of any outstanding recent events that
might have caused this problem.
Click to expand...

Download a drive diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturer's web
site and run it to check the drive.
 
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