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Kaal Shto
The main problem I'm having is that Windows does
not recognize my slave hard drive as being formatted. It
is a Maxtor Hard Drive with MaxLab3 fully installed on
it. When I enter Maxtor's Maxlab3 toolbar, the drive
reads as being completely set up, with a partition and
FAT32. However, when I double click on the D:\ drive icon
in My Computer, it waits a long time and then says "The
Disk in Drive D: is not formatted. Do you want to format
it now?" When I click on properties for the drive, it
comes up with vero capacity, zero bytes used and zero
bytes free. Windows also does not seem to recognize the
drive as having any file allocation table either, and
refers to it simply as RAW. I thought maybe a CIH virus
had wiped part of my FAT, but I checked this with a boot
disk and found the drive to be healthy. It is a 40 GB
drive with about 30 GB of data stored on it, and I would
like to somehow recover the data.
Another major problem I am having is that the
entire system seems to have suddenly begun running
extremely slowly. Windows loads fine, but upon loading
the processor gets into a rhythm of pausing every other
second, during which time nothing occurs. When I run a
program or install something, work is done only every
other second for approximately a second. It is as if the
processor were taking a break and doing nothing most of
the time. This means even the simplest of processes like
unzipping a document will take up to five minutes to
complete. When I am doing nothing, the processor is still
active, doing what I don't know. It will do the same
routine of pausing every other second though. And when I
open a folder or the Start menu, it will take upwards of
twenty to thirty seconds to open the thing. Once it is
loaded everything works perfectly until I want to open
the next folder or Start menu extension. When opening
programs, Windows will arbitrarily decide to pause and do
nothing for a good twenty to thirty seconds before
loading the program and running. During the pause, other
tasks can be switched to without delay. Once Windows gets
around to opening, say, Internet Explorer, everything
runs smoothly without delay as I browse the Internet.
There will be a backlog of commands if I try to
multitask, as if Windows is lazily trying to get around
to completing the tasks. When I look at the CPU window of
the task manager, the graph displays little spikes of a
second in duration between rising to 5% processor usage
at most. Occasionally my CPU will bust out and churn
through a task at full power, completing it quickly. But
for the most part it is as if only an infintesimal
portion of my computer's CPU power is available for me to
use.
These two problems began at the exact same time,
leading me to believe that they are related. I had
speculated that there was some conflict in the Registry
that had shut down my Maxtor software, resulting in
Windows not being able to read the D: drive, and that
this may have affected Virtual Memory to cause the system
to run slowly. But I've uninstalled just about every
extraneous program and the two problems still persist. I
also thought there might be a virus on my computer, but I
ran VirusScan and found nothing.
What is going on? I've never encountered a problem
like this before.
PS. Here are a few things I did on my computer just prior
to the problems' onset:
-I installed eMule, 3ivx, Netscape Communicator 4.75,
Mozilla, DirectX 9.0b and Nero 6 Ultra Edition on my
computer
-I installed a whole bunch of video games on my D: drive,
filling it to 10 GB short of capacity. The games I
installed were Age of Mythology, Age of Mythology: The
Titans Expansion, C&C Red Alert 2, C&C Generals, C&C
Generals: Zero Hour Expansion, Empires: Dawn of the
Modern World, Settlers III Demo, Sid Meier's Alpha
Centauri, Sid Meier's Planetary Pack, Sim City 3000
Unlimited, Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition, and Warlords IV.
-I deleted what I thought to be extraneous commands from
the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Run folder of my registry. I was annoyed because
programs like CommonName had installed themselves onto my
computer and implanted their commands in my registry's
startup folder. Upon reboot, when the problems started
happening, I would frequently get error messages from
RUNDLL saying it couldn't find the CommonName .dll files,
so I deleted all references to them in the registry and
it stopped complaining.
-I moved the folder D:\Kazaa from my D: drive to my C:
drive for deletion. I have since uninstalled Kazaa from
my system.
-I deleted a great many instances of spyware from my
computer's boot drive and registry.
not recognize my slave hard drive as being formatted. It
is a Maxtor Hard Drive with MaxLab3 fully installed on
it. When I enter Maxtor's Maxlab3 toolbar, the drive
reads as being completely set up, with a partition and
FAT32. However, when I double click on the D:\ drive icon
in My Computer, it waits a long time and then says "The
Disk in Drive D: is not formatted. Do you want to format
it now?" When I click on properties for the drive, it
comes up with vero capacity, zero bytes used and zero
bytes free. Windows also does not seem to recognize the
drive as having any file allocation table either, and
refers to it simply as RAW. I thought maybe a CIH virus
had wiped part of my FAT, but I checked this with a boot
disk and found the drive to be healthy. It is a 40 GB
drive with about 30 GB of data stored on it, and I would
like to somehow recover the data.
Another major problem I am having is that the
entire system seems to have suddenly begun running
extremely slowly. Windows loads fine, but upon loading
the processor gets into a rhythm of pausing every other
second, during which time nothing occurs. When I run a
program or install something, work is done only every
other second for approximately a second. It is as if the
processor were taking a break and doing nothing most of
the time. This means even the simplest of processes like
unzipping a document will take up to five minutes to
complete. When I am doing nothing, the processor is still
active, doing what I don't know. It will do the same
routine of pausing every other second though. And when I
open a folder or the Start menu, it will take upwards of
twenty to thirty seconds to open the thing. Once it is
loaded everything works perfectly until I want to open
the next folder or Start menu extension. When opening
programs, Windows will arbitrarily decide to pause and do
nothing for a good twenty to thirty seconds before
loading the program and running. During the pause, other
tasks can be switched to without delay. Once Windows gets
around to opening, say, Internet Explorer, everything
runs smoothly without delay as I browse the Internet.
There will be a backlog of commands if I try to
multitask, as if Windows is lazily trying to get around
to completing the tasks. When I look at the CPU window of
the task manager, the graph displays little spikes of a
second in duration between rising to 5% processor usage
at most. Occasionally my CPU will bust out and churn
through a task at full power, completing it quickly. But
for the most part it is as if only an infintesimal
portion of my computer's CPU power is available for me to
use.
These two problems began at the exact same time,
leading me to believe that they are related. I had
speculated that there was some conflict in the Registry
that had shut down my Maxtor software, resulting in
Windows not being able to read the D: drive, and that
this may have affected Virtual Memory to cause the system
to run slowly. But I've uninstalled just about every
extraneous program and the two problems still persist. I
also thought there might be a virus on my computer, but I
ran VirusScan and found nothing.
What is going on? I've never encountered a problem
like this before.
PS. Here are a few things I did on my computer just prior
to the problems' onset:
-I installed eMule, 3ivx, Netscape Communicator 4.75,
Mozilla, DirectX 9.0b and Nero 6 Ultra Edition on my
computer
-I installed a whole bunch of video games on my D: drive,
filling it to 10 GB short of capacity. The games I
installed were Age of Mythology, Age of Mythology: The
Titans Expansion, C&C Red Alert 2, C&C Generals, C&C
Generals: Zero Hour Expansion, Empires: Dawn of the
Modern World, Settlers III Demo, Sid Meier's Alpha
Centauri, Sid Meier's Planetary Pack, Sim City 3000
Unlimited, Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition, and Warlords IV.
-I deleted what I thought to be extraneous commands from
the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\Run folder of my registry. I was annoyed because
programs like CommonName had installed themselves onto my
computer and implanted their commands in my registry's
startup folder. Upon reboot, when the problems started
happening, I would frequently get error messages from
RUNDLL saying it couldn't find the CommonName .dll files,
so I deleted all references to them in the registry and
it stopped complaining.
-I moved the folder D:\Kazaa from my D: drive to my C:
drive for deletion. I have since uninstalled Kazaa from
my system.
-I deleted a great many instances of spyware from my
computer's boot drive and registry.