i've been experiencing extreme slowdown in accessing data on my HDD (120 Gb SATA )
the screen freezes and takes forever to open the folder, and also ends up "Not Responding" many times....
earlier my D: was on FAT32, i changed it to NTFS, but the problem persists...
i'm running XP with SP2...i havent made any major h/w changes recently...only installed half life 2....i'm runnung Mcafee A/V ...there r no viruses on my system
i tried turning off the eye candy in XP, have a lot of paging file specified on a non-windows NTFS drive....problem persists
PC configs: PIV 1.5 Ghz, VIA mobo, 512 MB DDR Ram, FX 5200 (56.72 drivers)....
kindly help....
the screen freezes and takes forever to open the folder, and also ends up "Not Responding" many times....
earlier my D: was on FAT32, i changed it to NTFS, but the problem persists...
i'm running XP with SP2...i havent made any major h/w changes recently...only installed half life 2....i'm runnung Mcafee A/V ...there r no viruses on my system
i tried turning off the eye candy in XP, have a lot of paging file specified on a non-windows NTFS drive....problem persists
PC configs: PIV 1.5 Ghz, VIA mobo, 512 MB DDR Ram, FX 5200 (56.72 drivers)....
kindly help....