The hard drive is too SLOW

[post8k]

I have a western digital hd, 7200rpm, 160gb, on a pentium 4 computer. The regular speed of the hd is 50mb/sec
Almost every morning when i turn the computer on the speed of the hd is 4mb/sec.
I use restore point to restore the computer to the day before and the speed is immidiatly back at 50mb/sec.

What is happening? Why is the hd speed dropping by 10 times?

Anyone have any ideas...

Thanks in advance !!

 

[pweegar]

1) Check for viruses.
2) Check for spyware
3) remove files/programs you don't need/use
4)delete all tmp, bak and log files that you don't need
5) Run Chkdsk c: /f from the command prompt , press
the "Y" key, reboot
6) defrag your hard drive.

the above should be a big help. Do them on a regular basis.

 

[post8k]

I have norton system works 2005 and its doing all these on a regular basis. I checked my disk and no erors.

Nothing helps...

the funny thing is that its happening so quickly, i mean when i turn my pc off its 50mb/sec and in the morning its 4mb/sec. Then i use windows restore point its back immidiatly...

What else should I try??

 

[micker377]

Disable Norton 2005 at night, and give it a try the next morning. Also, anti-virus scan has nothing to do with a spyware scan.

 

[post8k]

my computer is off for the night. I think problem is solved...

This is what was happening:
I installed an hd benchmark program to test the hd and write the speeed. to make the results accurate it changed the controller options from Ultra DMA 5 to PIO to have more priority on the benchmarking than on other things or somthing like that. It did not change it back.

So i had to use retore point to change it everytime and i was dumb enough to chek the speed with the benchmark program after the restores.....

Never use a HD benchmarker....

 

[micker377]

Or, test and remember <slaps forehead with palm of hand> to change it back! [grin]