Recent content by toddpaw

Thanks Mike, This is the last thing that will be done on this HDD, I have FAILURE.

thanks, I gave up on linear read test AIDA64 after an hour,

Thanks for reply, First off, How do I post images? I am all but sure the HDD is failing, I have been backing up files, 34 minutes for 351mb copy paste to other drive, you don't want to know how long for 40Gb Origin file, but my house is clean now. Again though, how do I post images from AIDA64...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Hi, An update and more questions. #1- Can I post images of processes running? I am baffled by what I see in resource monitor(RM). Besides LONG boot time, when I can actually do something with the PC, (HDD stops 100% activity) it will without me doing anything, jump to 100% and in RM show many...

Thanks Mike, to answer your questions, yes I did a restore from 3 days prior to problem starting, and yes it took 3hrs., that's how slow pc is running. I have been into task manager, as well as the resource monitor within the TM. It is there that shows the 100% HDD activity. There are a lot of...

Hi All, My PC was running great but when I started it from overnight sleep, which woke at the normal speed, I as always did a manual update to Avast definitions. It did the download as quick as always, but then during the "saving package" it hung. I left it like that for some minutes, and then...