laniik wrote:

>> If you think it might be the hard drive failing then download and run
>> Seagate's drive testing program. It is free and it is quick.
>>
>
>I ran the drive checks and there are no errors that show up, but if
>anything it would just be a slowness problem (maybe a lot of read
>errors? slow spin speed?) not bad sectors or anything that would show
>up on a drive test.

I had the same problem with a Seagate SATA 150, ran the diagnostic test
and was advised that the errors were acceptable but the drive was
taking 30 minutes to unrar a DVD, when it usually takes two minutes.
Didn't contact Seagate for an RMA because the drive was purchased from
a shop that went out of business.

The weird part about this incident is that O&O Defrag and Window's was
not able to defrag the partitions. This happened a couple months ago
and I can't remember the exact error message.
>
>
>> - Run "Task Manager" and check to see what's running and which is eating up
>> the CPU and go from there.
>
>i looked at all running processes and everything seems fine. whats more
>is that my cpu load doesnt seem to be that high. thats why i assumed it
>was some kind of hardware i/o problem (maybe drive related).
>
>thanks
>
>oliver