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| Thread ID: 54688 | 2005-02-19 09:23:00 | my laptop dont run like it used to either | malone (6796) | Press F1 |
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| 326461 | 2005-02-19 09:23:00 | hey there well I have exactly the same symptoms as digitalfatality. My laptop wont run software like it used to, especially anything resource hungry like graphics or games like age of empires. Things have got progressivly slower over the past few months. Have posted on this forum and got some great advice but to no avail so far. I regularly defrag. Keep AVG 7 uptodate. Run spybot and adaware se and keep them upto date. Have updated video driver and direct XP. Have run msconfig and done the direct x and direct draw checks but no improvment. So I spose like the advice being given to digitalfatality I am looking at needing to reformat my hdd and reload XP. Trouble is I have about 7GB of MP3's I would rather not have to load back on. Can anyone advise if there is an easy way to backup or transfer these to another computer while I do the reformat? Any other advice on how to get the foot off the brakes on my computer is also appreciated. cheers malone |
malone (6796) | ||
| 326462 | 2005-02-19 10:02:00 | External harddrive. Or Internal HD mounted in a caddy. Copy and paste. Granted it will cost a little bit of green,But thems the breaks. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 326463 | 2005-02-19 20:20:00 | have you got a cd/dvd writer? you can just put them on some disks, or go for the external hdd. how much ram do you have? its good to do a format atleast once a year |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 326464 | 2005-02-19 20:24:00 | If you are going to reformat Windows, this time make sure you create two partitions - one for XP and the other just to store your files on. This way in future reinstalls, you can just format the Windows partition and install again and your personal data is left untouched. | Jen (38) | ||
| 326465 | 2005-02-20 00:06:00 | So if you have an 80gig hard drive you can choose to have say a 10gig partition to run your operating system on and the remainder for file storage? Interesting. |
Jason (392) | ||
| 326466 | 2005-02-20 00:11:00 | yup. You can also use partitions to install 2 different versions of windows ;) | Edward (31) | ||
| 326467 | 2005-02-20 01:39:00 | or have a small partion to experiment with linux if you wish.... | Prescott (11) | ||
| 326468 | 2005-02-20 02:22:00 | So if you have an 80gig hard drive you can choose to have say a 10gig partition to run your operating system on and the remainder for file storage? Interesting. That's the way I've done it for several years now and I have never had to reinstall an OS. My W98 installation has been used daily for around 5 years no problems, and my W2000 installation has been up for 4 years in daily use with no speed loss. Keeping data separate from programs seems to help avoid file corruption through fragmentation perhaps, or accidental over-writes as well. It wasn't always so, before separating programs & data I did have problems from time to time and it was the data loss that made me install a second drive. I recommend it, whether by partition or by separate drive! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 326469 | 2005-02-20 04:59:00 | thanks all for the advice. Looks like I will try and find a portable hdd or try one of the local computer stores to do the job for me this time. Definitely going to partition off XP. Damn fine idea thanks heaps. :D | malone (6796) | ||
| 326470 | 2005-02-20 08:04:00 | have you run ccleaner? www.ccleaner.com it cleans out all the crap from all the places that you don't know about. It might be worthwhile to try it to help speed up your system. worth a look anyway. rob |
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