Slowness revived

[Nate]

I posted before about abnormal slowness on my computer. could it be the fact
that I have a few bad sectors on my hard drive, and since it is over 50%
used that some files could be on the bad sectors and causing the slowness?
lately my computer has not reverted to the 9x graphics, but outlook still
takes forever to load, and windows locks up sometimes when I open a new tab
and load a webpage. Also, right clicking often locks the computer up for a
few seconds. Used to lock up when I opened my computer(mainly when I clicked
a drive in it) but that seems to have gone away, along with the view in my
computer has changed without me telling it to.

Don't want to get a new HDD if it may be something else..

No virus/spyware
temp files all cleaned up
prefectch clean
no need for defrag
chkdsk scan shows no problems


For some reason files have gone missing, maybe key system files have too?
files in my system folder like calculator, mspaint, and a few others have
disappeared, but nothing really important that I have noticed. How do I run
a scan to see what system files are missing, and then copy from my windows
xp disk?

 

[Poprivet]

I posted before about abnormal slowness on my computer. could it be
the fact that I have a few bad sectors on my hard drive, and since it
is over 50% used that some files could be on the bad sectors and
causing the slowness? lately my computer has not reverted to the 9x
graphics, but outlook still takes forever to load, and windows locks
up sometimes when I open a new tab and load a webpage. Also, right
clicking often locks the computer up for a few seconds. Used to lock
up when I opened my computer(mainly when I clicked a drive in it) but
that seems to have gone away, along with the view in my computer has
changed without me telling it to.
Don't want to get a new HDD if it may be something else..

No virus/spyware
temp files all cleaned up
prefectch clean
no need for defrag
chkdsk scan shows no problems


For some reason files have gone missing, maybe key system files have
too? files in my system folder like calculator, mspaint, and a few
others have disappeared, but nothing really important that I have
noticed. How do I run a scan to see what system files are missing,
and then copy from my windows xp disk?

Run chkdsk -r. (chkdsk /? will give you Help on it) That will locate and
mark the bad sectors so they can't be used.
Then keep track of the bad sectors. If more start to show up, especially
in the next couple of weeks, your drive is failing and needs to be replaced.
A few bad sectors is OK; MORE being added is NOT and is a sign of impending
failure.

 

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