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Posted by Dana Cline - MVP on September 25, 2006, 12:51 pm
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Offhand it sounds like either your boot OS drive is slowly failing, or maybe
you've got a virus or rootkit or spyware or something. You might want to ask
in one of the XP newsgroups rather than the Media Center newsgroup...they
will probably have better ideas. Have you run any system or memory or hard
drive diagnostics?
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
> XP has started failing me.
>
> Two of my external hard drives, which work fine on my other computer, now
> cause my XP PC to lock up whenever they're powered on and connected to it.
> I
> can't even run diagnostics on them on this machine, while the other one
> says
> they're normal.
>
> My file search function now either doesn't work at all or goes glacially
> slow - - as in ten minutes to find one small file in a six-file small
> directory! [I gave it something easy to do as a test after it stopped
> working right.] It no longer shows the "searching files" stuff at
> flashing
> speed, either.
>
> When I want to shut down, I'm sometimes unable to without cutting the
> power.
> Other times, I must wait for ages while several programs struggle to end,
> e.g. "ccApp" something, some waol file and a few others with gibberish
> names.
>
> So, what I need is to get back to normal, i.e. able to read my working
> drives, search and shut down.
>
> I already tried Norton Systemworks, GoBack and various other things
> without
> success. I tested the drives, the drivers, the ports, etc. and all work
> fine
> individually or with other devices.
>
> I have also contacted the computer maker, Dell, and the hard drive maker,
> Western Digital, with no success to date. So, since the basic fixes and
> some
> intermediate fixes haven't worked, I'm looking for other ideas. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks.
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