tsunami643
New Member
So I've been having this consistent problem recently and I thought I had fixed it, but apparently not. A while ago, my 2nd hard drive (500gb maxtor), which I used pretty much exclusively for downloads and installations of games had been acting weird. It would spontaneously disappear from My Computer after about 15 minutes of my computer being on, and it would cause my computer to take 30+ minutes to get to the logon screen after restarting. I tried system restoring, switching SATA cables, switching SATA slots, and pretty much everything (except formatting).
So I just gave up, and put in my terabyte (Samsung) HD in there which I had formerly been using externally, and which was working fine. The transfer went fine from taking that hard drive and putting it internally, switching it out with the Maxtor, except then (after about 3 days) utorrent started giving me this "Disk Overload 100%" comment, so I figured something was still up. Then I restarted my computer, and once again, it took an outrageously long time to get to my logon screen. Once again, I tried switching the SATA and all of that, but no dice, still giving me the problem.
As of right now, I've disconnected my second hard drive altogether, but this is not an issue that I can continue to deal with. The computer is about two years old:
Dell Dimension 9200
Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
2 GB RAM
Vista 32bit Home Basic
Any solutions? I would rather not reformat, considering I don't really think that's the issue (I've tried it with two drives). And I've run Windows Defender and the windows malicious software remover and neither have found any viruses. Thanks.
So I just gave up, and put in my terabyte (Samsung) HD in there which I had formerly been using externally, and which was working fine. The transfer went fine from taking that hard drive and putting it internally, switching it out with the Maxtor, except then (after about 3 days) utorrent started giving me this "Disk Overload 100%" comment, so I figured something was still up. Then I restarted my computer, and once again, it took an outrageously long time to get to my logon screen. Once again, I tried switching the SATA and all of that, but no dice, still giving me the problem.
As of right now, I've disconnected my second hard drive altogether, but this is not an issue that I can continue to deal with. The computer is about two years old:
Dell Dimension 9200
Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
2 GB RAM
Vista 32bit Home Basic
Any solutions? I would rather not reformat, considering I don't really think that's the issue (I've tried it with two drives). And I've run Windows Defender and the windows malicious software remover and neither have found any viruses. Thanks.