and I'm nervous about it. Here is the history on my computer it is 18 to 20 years old and lately the harddrive has been making a very loud noise while freezing up on me a lot my computer is running like a very slow snail I don't want to do a defrag on it because I'm afraid that it will mess up the harddrive even more. What should I do?
Copy your data off to a network share or external drive or even a thumb drive ASAP! (Unless you already have your personal files backed up regularly)
After that, start looking for a new drive and look forward to complete reinstall of everything. Or a new computer... even the cheapest computer/laptop you can get will be about 100 times better than anything "18-20 years old" :)
Wow what brand of computer do you have that is still working after 18 to 20 years and how big is the hard drive
Thank you for the advice,
I have backed up everything I care about in terms of files, pictures etc.
I will be getting a new laptop anyway.
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This is the information about my computer:
PC Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Computer Model: OptiPlex GX 240
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Computer Product: OptiPlex GX 240
CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20 GHz
Version x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4
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Page File Size 576 Mb
Page File Free 94%
Physical Memory Size 383 Mb
Physical Memory Free 24%
Disk Type Fixed Disk
Disk I.D. C drive
Total Disk Space 37.2Gb
Free Disk Space 30.5Gb
The HD in my 7 year old laptop did the same thing, I never kept anything important on it that wasn't elsewhere so no big deal. Even jumping 7 years was a lifetime in computer progress
I was going to stick a new cheap HD in it and get it running again to give away but it got stolen instead. Hope they enjoy the dead lappy!
It is weird though, because I got a PC in 98 (Gateway) with a 20 Gig drive and although it makes that loud noise while running, it still works. I recently hooked it up to the net to confirm something and although I hadn't run it for about a year, it still fired up.....I was using that PC up until 1 1/2 years ago.....The HD in my 7 year old laptop did the same thing, I never kept anything important on it that wasn't elsewhere so no big deal. Even jumping 7 years was a lifetime in computer progress
I was going to stick a new cheap HD in it and get it running again to give away but it got stolen instead. Hope they enjoy the dead lappy!
It's running XP & no probs...maybe they knew how to build HD's better back then?
Thank you Fseal and Borg
for making me laugh!
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