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Hi,
I'd greatly appreciate some help... I upgraded to Nortons SystemsWork 2005
early in the month, and everything seemed to be working fine for a little
while. Then, one morning I switched on the machine and start up took some
10-15 minutes when it used to take less than 1 minute. From then on, the
hard disk would only read/write in short brusts (i.e., <1 sec).
At first I suspected it was the good work of Nortons (I still think they'd
something to do with it), Disk Doctor reported problems with the File Index
and the Security Descriptors. I asked it to fix the problem at the next
start up, but it didn't quite work. (Reinstalling NSW made no difference.)
After reading threads here, I tried chkdsk /r/f and it fixed the File Index
problem - Disk Doctor said it's fine now. But DD still shows problems with
the Security Descriptors, something chkdsk /r/f can't seem to fix. While the
performance of the disk is better, it's still nowhere near what it used to
be. BTW, I ran chkdsk /r/f twice, each taking some 24 hours.
I'm putting it through a defrag at the moment (and I wasn't able to even do
that before chkdsk), and it's going exceedingly slow.
Since the problem started, there's a strange 'bing' (almost metallic
sounding) from the system. It's making me nervous that it's hardware
instead... But then, the machine makes all sorts of bings and beeps all the
time...
Some background information:
Toshiba M10
Win XP Pro SP2 (with all updates)
A 20Gb (partitioned from a 40Gb as when bought originally)
Nortons Systemworks 2005 (with all updates)
Antivirus indicates the system is clean
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
S
Hi,
I'd greatly appreciate some help... I upgraded to Nortons SystemsWork 2005
early in the month, and everything seemed to be working fine for a little
while. Then, one morning I switched on the machine and start up took some
10-15 minutes when it used to take less than 1 minute. From then on, the
hard disk would only read/write in short brusts (i.e., <1 sec).
At first I suspected it was the good work of Nortons (I still think they'd
something to do with it), Disk Doctor reported problems with the File Index
and the Security Descriptors. I asked it to fix the problem at the next
start up, but it didn't quite work. (Reinstalling NSW made no difference.)
After reading threads here, I tried chkdsk /r/f and it fixed the File Index
problem - Disk Doctor said it's fine now. But DD still shows problems with
the Security Descriptors, something chkdsk /r/f can't seem to fix. While the
performance of the disk is better, it's still nowhere near what it used to
be. BTW, I ran chkdsk /r/f twice, each taking some 24 hours.
I'm putting it through a defrag at the moment (and I wasn't able to even do
that before chkdsk), and it's going exceedingly slow.
Since the problem started, there's a strange 'bing' (almost metallic
sounding) from the system. It's making me nervous that it's hardware
instead... But then, the machine makes all sorts of bings and beeps all the
time...
Some background information:
Toshiba M10
Win XP Pro SP2 (with all updates)
A 20Gb (partitioned from a 40Gb as when bought originally)
Nortons Systemworks 2005 (with all updates)
Antivirus indicates the system is clean
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
S
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