Slow Seagate Hard Drive

Hello,

My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.

The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.

I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
working perfectly and has its drivers installed.

I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
stumped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

DMA should be enabled for all hard drives and CD drives.
See if anything is running in the background and hogging CPU cycles.

Kison wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
> hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
> with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
> Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
> drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.
>
> The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
> attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
> using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.
>
> I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
> working perfectly and has its drivers installed.
>
> I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
> Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
> stumped.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

On Dec 26, 10:54 pm, n...@spam.invalid (Kison) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
> hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
> with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
> Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
> drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.
>
> The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
> attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
> using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.
>
> I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
> working perfectly and has its drivers installed.
>
> I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
> Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
> stumped.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It is possible that the drive is going to fail.

I would suggest going to http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ and
download a free copy of the Seatools software. This will tell you if
there is a fault with your drive

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:54:37 -0000 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With
Yang then no@spam.invalid (Kison) sent this :

>Hello,
>
>My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
>hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
>with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
>Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
>drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.
>
>The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
>attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
>using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.
>
>I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
>working perfectly and has its drivers installed.
>
>I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
>Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
>stumped.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Don't leave CDs/DVDs in the drives.
Clear MRUs(Most Recent Documents lists(Documents also includes .zip
file references and or access to any of the drives using files
including the floppy drive if you have one and have used it).

Easy Cleaner(Free) still works in XP and has the options you need,
http://personal.inet.fi/business/ton...e.htm#download

HTH :)



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On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:54:37 -0000, no@spam.invalid (Kison)
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
>hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
>with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
>Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
>drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.
>
>The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
>attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
>using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.
>
>I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
>working perfectly and has its drivers installed.

I'd wonder if the sound card driver installed some kind of
Explorer context entry that is buggy. You might temporarily
uninstall that driver and see if any remnants of it
remain... hopefully not.



>
>I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
>Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
>stumped.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Were they both connected on different cables (and/or are
they both PATA )? It seems they're PATA since one is older
and the other mentioned as Master.

Is it possible the cable to the Seagate is bad? Try other
cabling configurations if possible, and leave each drive
alone on a separate cable temporarily, if possible.

Presuming Windows 2K or XP, check Event Viewer. Check
Device Manager, the properties for the drive controller to
confirm use of DMA. If you are using a 3rd party chipset
driver (such as nVidia's), you might try uninstalling it and
using the Windows driver (if compatible... you didn't tell
us anything about the rest of the system).

Given details about the motherboard and chipset (of it and
if a discrete drive controller chip, that too...) someone
might recall particular issues with it.

You might also run a benchmark program on it like HDTach,
and be sure to run the HDD manufacturer's utilities as
"therover" mentioned.

Shep© wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:54:37 -0000 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With
> Yang then no@spam.invalid (Kison) sent this :
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >My current setup includes two hard drives: The main 40 gigabyte Maxtor
> >hard drive and my 250 gigabyte Seagate hard drive. All has gone well
> >with both until today, when I noticed that every time I opened
> >Windows Explorer and attempted to navegate through the Seagate hard
> >drive, I'd experiance an extreme burst of lag.
> >
> >The only things I think could have caused this: I was originally
> >attempting to burn a zip file from the Seagate hard drive to a CD
> >using Nero. However, the burn failed twice.
> >
> >I also installed a Soundblaster sound card today, although it is
> >working perfectly and has its drivers installed.
> >
> >I shutdown my computer, disconnected my Maxtor drive, and booted the
> >Seagate drive up as Master. However, the lag continues, and now I am
> >stumped.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Don't leave CDs/DVDs in the drives.
> Clear MRUs(Most Recent Documents lists(Documents also includes .zip
> file references and or access to any of the drives using files
> including the floppy drive if you have one and have used it).
>
> Easy Cleaner(Free) still works in XP and has the options you need,
> http://personal.inet.fi/business/ton...e.htm#download
>
> HTH :)
>
>

GAH! Registry cleaners cause more problems than they purport to solve.
THe MRU lists have virtually zero performance hit.

On 26 Dec 2006 19:23:56 -0800 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With Yang
then "paulmd@efn.org" <paulmd@efn.org> sent this :

>
>GAH! Registry cleaners cause more problems than they purport to solve.
>THe MRU lists have virtually zero performance hit.

Never had a problem with them in over 10 years plus of windows.All
registry cleaners I have used also back up the keys and entries they
take out so they are easily restored if required.




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