not responding ????

[crampp]

My hard drive is split into 2, C & D drives.
When I Leave a window open on drive D and use an application then close the application my computer hangs and I get the status of "not responding" in task manager?
Example: I open a Folder on my D drive with some .jpgs in, drag one over the Photoshop shortcut on my desktop. Make adjustments and save. Save is completed, close the image then close the application. I would then get a ghost window of the application or just the background colour of my desktop and the PC will hang until I "end task" on the open window for the folder on my D drive that in task manager that is "not responding"...
Questions:
1. What does not responding mean?
2. how can I get this to stop happening?

 

[netwalker1]

Not Responding may means that the Windows can't read from your D drive .. I think the problem will be in the partationing of the D ,, is it NTFS , or FAT32 .. and may it has a lot of files in it's root ..
Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!

 

[crampp]

It is NTFS with 16 objects in it's root.

I have also found that the same error also occours with network windows?

 

[netwalker1]

what about the RAM ?
and is this problem is happening with the C Drive ?! Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!

 

[crampp]

I have 392Mb of RAM.

Yes it happens with C drive as well.

 

[netwalker1]

IS the windows installed as a clean installation , or upgraded from an old windows ,,
and did it work fine , and suddenly this happened ?? Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!

 

[crampp]

It was a clean install.
It worked fine except for the slow drop down windows when exploring locations to save to etc.
It has steadily been getting worse (happening more often)for a while (months).

 

[WindowWizard]

Try running ScanDisk on both partitions. There may be some broken chains that can't be navigated. Also, when was the disk last defragmented?

Since you say that it happens on both partitions, it may be a HDD failure in progress. You may need to run some hardware diagnostics to see if there is a problem at that level (speed, head movement, etc.) But check the obvious first.

 

[netwalker1]

WindowWizard is completly right ,, u have to check the defragment , using scandisk ..

u can also check the disk on another PC , by connect it as a slave , then check if the same problem is happening ,,
Mohamed Farid
Know Me No Pain , No Me Know Pain !!!