Slow disk access in viewing images

[eljainc]

Hello,

I am noticing that on one computer file access from a graphic viewer
is very slow. On another computer of almost the same type, the access
for viewing images is much faster. I then found there is a program
called FILEMON (from sysinternals.com) that shows the low level disk
access information. With the slow computer, I noticed something
different when performing the reads:

Operation: WRITE E:\temp\ICACHE-6EaEC9D7.tmp Offset 65536 Length:
65536

There were several more entries for this read operation of an image
file.

There is also a similar operation for READ which shows something like:

READ E:\TEMP\ILIST-xxxxxxxxxx.tmp

How can I fix this problem? The slowdown is very bothersome

Thanks
Mike

 

[Randem]

It would seem that you have sectors that are going bad on your HD, hense the
multiple read attempts to get good data. You will eventually need to replace
your HD or you could use the stop gap methods to slow that down... The stop
gap method are time comsuming and not worth the time unless you already have
a new HD and just want to be able to retrieve the data from your old HD to
place on the new one.

Even the disk testing software that you could use to test for bad sectors
will not mark sectors bad if they can eventually read the data after a few
tries...

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[Gerry]

Try HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any
problems.

Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune
(freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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