Is my harddrive screwed? (benchmark pics)

[edro]

I have an old P3-600 laptop with a 12gb hard drive.
It is getting slow to even browse the web.

It seems to be accessing the hard drive for a long time when the computer lags.

Here are the benchmark pics of the drive.
Seek Time
Benchmark
Errors

The seek time looks very low (~13mb/sec MAX).
There is only one error, so that looks ok.

Are these seek times typical of old notebook hard drives?

 

[Denithor]

Make sure the drive has not dropped into PIO mode - find the IDE controller in Device Manager & check for status, should be in DMA mode.

If that's not the case, are you sure it's not just clogged up with spyware/viruses?

A clean install of Windows can work wonders on old machines.

EDIT: And since you found an error, make sure you run chkdsk /r on the drive to find & correct any errors.

 

[TidusZ]

christ, you could buy a 16 gb flash stick and use that instead.

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
christ, you could buy a 16 gb flash stick and use that instead.

Except I doubt it will connect to his lappy...