Sluggish PC

**David_Wright** · 05-21-2003 05:39 PM

My friends pc crashed and upon restarting he was asked to insert the boot disk or else the PC would not boot. He sorted this problem out but now windows is runny very sluggish. For example moving the My Computer window is very jerky and slow to update.

Any ideas?
Thanks

**GamerBoyFranco** · 05-21-2003 07:19 PM

What his system specs?

**GamerBoyFranco** · 05-21-2003 07:20 PM

Sorry, What is his system specs?

**BipolarBill** · 05-21-2003 07:29 PM

Windows version please.

My first guess would be bad clusters/sectors on the hard drive. He should do a complete disk scan w/surface check.

**David_Wright** · 05-21-2003 07:29 PM

Athlon XP 2400+
Abit AT7-Max 2 motherboard
1Ghz corsair 2700 ram
120gb Western Digital HDD
DVD
CDRW

running Windows XP Pro

**BipolarBill** · 05-21-2003 07:30 PM

Tell him to run CHKDSK C: /F /R from a command prompt.

**GamerBoyFranco** · 05-21-2003 07:39 PM

also tell him to do disk defrag

**BipolarBill** · 05-21-2003 07:54 PM

That's not the problem. If it were, I would have.

**David_Wright** · 05-21-2003 08:05 PM

Ok he has run chkdsk and still experiences the same problems. I've also been told that prior to the first crash the drive made a big 'clunk' and he is now experiencing small 'clunks' now and again.

**BipolarBill** · 05-21-2003 08:47 PM

He needs to download the disk utilty from the drive maker. It's free. I'm quite sure that the drive has bad sectors and possibly bad hardware.

Frankly, I would suggest replacing the drive and copying it before it goes bye-bye forever.

**David_Wright** · 05-21-2003 09:18 PM

His PC is now working fine. Norton detected a virus that was affecting his driver files and has sorted that out.

Thanks for the help.

**GamerBoyFranco** · 05-21-2003 10:31 PM

welcome

**killer_teddy** · 05-23-2003 12:17 PM

Originally posted by BipolarBill
Tell him to run CHKDSK C: /F /R from a command prompt.

what exactly does this do? and Why the /f /r?

**BipolarBill** · 05-23-2003 12:51 PM

If you just run Checkdisk (CHKDSK), your drives will be checked for errors, but Windows won't fix them. This is for people trying to save data that might otherwise be lost or to spare the user from rebooting. In NT, you can't repair a running drive. It must be done on restart.

If you add the /F switch, the file system will be repaired.

If you add the /R switch, CHKDSK will scan the drive surface for bad sectors/clusters (physical damage).

In the Recovery Console, the switches are different.
/P replaces /F.

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