Hard Drive and BIOS

[ICEVaPa]

Resently i had problems with my computer because it fell on it's side... :|

But that has all been fixed up... the only problem is my hard drive, it seems to work normaly and then go extreamly slow and then normal again. this cycle goes on for ages. fast-slow-fast-slow...ect.
:frown:

At the moment i am formatting just incase, but while it formats it does the same thing, it was going fast, then hit 18% and took ages to get onto 19%. and this happend again when it hit 49%.

while i was fixing my motherboard, i took out the CMOS battery, could there be a BIOS setting that was disabled or enabled, that could cause something like this?

While i play games the Hard Drive thinks and the game jumps a bit every 5 seconds or so, the whole game seems slower also.

The Hard Drive is a Segate 40 gig. it is a NTFS drive, but sice i havebeen haveing problems now and then it makes a sounds like an ond FAT32🙁

I am running win xp,

Please if anyone can help, it will be greatly appreciated! please tell me anything it could be... even if it is not the BIOS, this is just something i think it could be!

Thanx

 

[psianime]

Have you tried scan disk'ing all the sectors? You might have some bad clusters on your hard drive. It's interesting how you can point out at what % your hard drive slows down... specific locations on the hard drive might be bad and that might be causing the slow down?

Do the scan disk in DOS.

-psianime