A
Anne Onime
I have a hard drive which has a corrupt partition. Namely,
the FAT, root directory and such critical sectors were
overwritten. So I put it in another PC to first make a
copy, then try some data recovery programs on it.
Everything goes so slowly: booting, switching and closing
tasks, or if the screensaver comes on, then it takes 30
seconds to come back after moving mouse. Normally this PC
is quite fast: dual-channel memory, 2 MB CPU cache, SATA
disks and so on. But it runs like an old 386 with the bad
disk plugged in. Yet in task manager, I can't see anything
using CPU percent. Anything, regardless of which disk it
tries to access is stifled. I then tried the bad disk in
another PC with Windows 2000, and same constipation attack.
I am booting from a good disk in each case.
Why is it so?
(I ran disk diagnostic on it, and there were no SMART
errors logged - the corruption was not due to crap
software not hardware fault).
the FAT, root directory and such critical sectors were
overwritten. So I put it in another PC to first make a
copy, then try some data recovery programs on it.
Everything goes so slowly: booting, switching and closing
tasks, or if the screensaver comes on, then it takes 30
seconds to come back after moving mouse. Normally this PC
is quite fast: dual-channel memory, 2 MB CPU cache, SATA
disks and so on. But it runs like an old 386 with the bad
disk plugged in. Yet in task manager, I can't see anything
using CPU percent. Anything, regardless of which disk it
tries to access is stifled. I then tried the bad disk in
another PC with Windows 2000, and same constipation attack.
I am booting from a good disk in each case.
Why is it so?
(I ran disk diagnostic on it, and there were no SMART
errors logged - the corruption was not due to crap
software not hardware fault).