Slow hard drive - OS or hardware problem?

[paulwood]

I recently upgraded my m/b to PIII 933, but used the same three disk drives. It all worked, but today the E drive is taking ages to do anything. There are no conflicts in device manager and Norton Disk Doctor reports no errors. This is the fastest and newest of the three. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Eguy]

Hi paulwood

Fist thing that comes to mind is to do a disk cleanup & defrag.
Three hard drives? Is your E drive on the same channel as a CD-ROM?

Ed Please let me know if the sugestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes your the windshield... Sometimes your the bug.

 

[paulwood]

I did all the defrag stuff before installing the new m/b and yes it is on the same channel as the dvd.

This wasn't an issue with the old m/b and I noticed at boot up that the new disk was running udma mode 5 whilst the other two were running mode 2. I also noticed that when I browse a directory on the drive that has exe files on it, it is slow, whilst data files list immediately.

I have mostly data on this drive, but any exe files I attempt to run from the drive seem to have problems. Is it possible that the new drive is too fast for the boot disk which has the Windows sub directory on it, and the old m/b just wasn't able to run at the higher rate? I know you should try and have the boot disk as the fastest drive but work time constraints mean I can't reformat and start again. :-(