Add new SATA drive, laptop becomes slow and hangs alot?


  1. Markey707
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    Add new SATA drive, laptop becomes slow and hangs alot?


    I removed an 80GB hard drive from my Lenovo T61 4GB Ram, 1.8ghz Dula Core, Windows 7 Home Premium and replaced with a brand new fujitsu 320gb hard drive.

    Ever since doing this my computer has slowed dramatically.

    So much so Firefox hangs, Chrome hangs.. even defrag hangs. Basically anything that requires a little bit of system resources will hang.

    I don't know if it's because it's a faulty hard drive but I'm beginning to think it is.

    What do you guys think?

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  3. TVeblen
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    The first thing to try is to remove the drive and then be sure to blow out all of the connectors, in the drive and the laptop, with a can of compressed air. Then reinstall it and see if it makes any difference.
    The connectors are very close together and just a tiny hair or dust-bunny can cause enough of an electrical short to cause you problems.

    You also want to burn yourself a boot CD with Hitachi Drive Fitness Test and test the drive. The Drive Fitness Test works well for Fujitsu drives.
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