Okay here's the story:

I bought a new hard drive (Western Digital, 120 gig, ATA 100, 8 meg buffer). Not wanting to reinstall Windows 2000 and starting over, I decided to clone the new hard drive with my old hard drive. The process took 15-20 minutes with 15 gig of transfered data. I did this with the software that came with the hard drive. I gave my brohter my old hard drive and so the new hard drive is the only hard drive in my system.

So I boot the computer up and I'm happy to see everthing as I left it, but wasn't happy with the performance. Every time I double click on a program there is a second of pause before the hard drive starts kicking in. Mulit-tasking or windows shuffling is torture. It's like playing Counter-Strike on a 14k external modem. It's really laggy and insanely annoying.

Addition info:
The hard drive is partitioned with about 40 gigs in FAT32 and the other 80 is in NTSF. My OS is in the 40 gig partition. I benchmarked both partitions and both came out with the same sorry results. So I don't think defragging to help much.



I was hopping to give you an entire screenshot of the results, but imagestation limits the image dimensions so I cropped what I though was most important. I don't know exactly what isn't working, indicated by th pic, and I hoping that you guys could help me out with this.

I've installed the most recent motherboard drivers and that had no impact.


Guys have any ideas?

(I got the hard drive for $60 after rebate, just in case anyone wanted to know)

 

Are you running Norton anti-virus? That caused someone else the same problem with the same drive:

http://www.hardwareaccelerated.com/forums/...opic.php?t=1212

 

I have AVG anti-virus and I don't think that's the problem. It'll probably take 5 hours to do a full virus scan with the rate it's running at now. I won't have time to do a virus scan until the weekend.

I also have spybot so I don't think spyware is the case either. I don't have a firewall but I'm on a 56k.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Is there anymore thought?

 

No, I meant try disabling it. The guy in the post jsut turned it off and his hard drive was not laggy any more.

 

This is really interesting. The new hard drive should be an EXACT clone of the old one. Only explanation i can come up with is the File allocation talbe got messed up during the cloning process. Either that or the new drive had problems right out of the factory.

 

Opps Sorry. I read you post in a rush before going to class and only saw Norton Anti-Virus.

I checked the link and will try it out when I go home.

 

Maybe check your power conservation settings? Could be idling the HDD immediately.

 

Is all your RAM present and accounted for?

You might have accidentally caused a RAM strip to get disconnected while replacing your hard drive (which might cause frequent paging).

Far out there, but worth a look.

 

That was half the truth. I had downloaded and installed the updated drivers for the chipset and not the update for the UDMA. I assumed that the file I had downloaded included both updates because of past experiences, but I was wrong.

Everything is as running fine now.

Thanks for the help anyways.

 

1) Defrag the hard drive
2) Check for viruses
3) Format the hard drive and start all over clean moving over only the files that you absolutely need from the old hard drive.
4) Return hard drive and get a new 7200rpm hard drive.