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Laptop disk drive running slow
As above. I had a serious crash recently where the system failed to get beyond the HP logo and Press ESC to enter BIOS. I eventually got it sorted by reinstalling an Acronis image but since then it has been running slow. It also meant that several partitions were zapped but I got them back with Easeus Partition Recovery. Has the disk geometry altered perhaps?
I just checked my disk properties in Device Manager and I'm not seeing the 'use UDMA if available.' The only tabs I get after R clicking on properties on my HDD are General, Policies, Volumes, Driver and Details. I may be wrong but I thought there was another tab or am I mistaken?
I'm running Win7 HP 64 bit on an HP Pavilion DV6-2113SA AMD Turion 2.5 dual core, 4GB RAM,.
I've done MBAM scans in safe mode and Win mode and found nothing, chkdsk nothing, cleaned up unwanted files and programs and all the usual stuff. I don't think turning off services will help as the laptop used to run a lot quicker than this. It takes about 4 minutes before I can use it from boot.
My feeling is that it is the disk but I don't know how to prove/disprove it!