Test for hard drive being sluggish?

[JimmyK]

I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little
sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows
XP wanting a fresh install or the hard drive just getting a little old
and slower. What I would like to know is if there's a program that can
test my drive and tell me if it's the hard drive being a little
sluggish. Otherwise I'll know it's Windows XP.

 

[Rod Speed]

I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little
sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows
XP wanting a fresh install or the hard drive just getting a little old
and slower.

That last doesnt happen.

What I would like to know is if there's a program that can test
my drive and tell me if it's the hard drive being a little sluggish.

If you'd used HDTach initially, and saved the data, you could
run it again now and see if anything has changed. Too late now tho.

Otherwise I'll know it's Windows XP.

I'd have a look at the SMART data with Everest
and see if its slow because its retrying on errors.
Post the Everest data here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

 

[Arno Wagner]

I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little
sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows
XP wanting a fresh install or the hard drive just getting a little old
and slower. What I would like to know is if there's a program that can
test my drive and tell me if it's the hard drive being a little
sluggish. Otherwise I'll know it's Windows XP.

I recently read a test of Windows defraggers in the german
computer magazine c't. It seems none does a really good job.

To see whether your disk is o.k., get a SMART tool and run a long
self-test. If it finds problems or a lot of reallocated sectors,
then you may want to consider a new disk.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I recently read a test of Windows defraggers in the german
computer magazine c't. It seems none does a really good job.

To see whether your disk is o.k., get a SMART tool and run a long
self-test. If it finds problems

or a lot of reallocated sectors,

The usual gibber from babblemouth.
A long selftest doesn't find reallocated sectors.

then you may want to consider a new disk.

Or a new power supply.

 

[Lynn McGuire]

I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little

sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows
XP wanting a fresh install or the hard drive just getting a little old
and slower. What I would like to know is if there's a program that can
test my drive and tell me if it's the hard drive being a little
sluggish. Otherwise I'll know it's Windows XP.

www.hdtune.com

Lynn

 

[Odie Ferrous]

I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little
sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows
XP wanting a fresh install or the hard drive just getting a little old
and slower. What I would like to know is if there's a program that can
test my drive and tell me if it's the hard drive being a little
sluggish. Otherwise I'll know it's Windows XP.

I once recovered a drive with 3/4 of a million temp files on it.

It was incredibly slow.

If you have a humongous temp folder, or temp internet files folders, try
deleting the contents.


Odie