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#1 HotRevolver
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Usually Windows XP is really fast, but recently accessing folders and moving stuff around has gotten terribly slow. Playing games seems to be fine, but moving stuff around/organization is really a slow task, and it bugs me because it was once much faster. I've defragged the drive, performed disk cleanup, scanned for viruses/spyware. Nothing seems to be speeding this thing up...I may try doing a fresh install, as much as I don't want too!

Could this be a sign of a HDD starting to fail? Are there any programs I can run to check the HDD for errors?

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usually when a hard drive is about to fail, u'll hear clicking noise...a full hard drive can also be a problem...how much space left on ur hard drive and what's the capacity?
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I haven't heard clicking noises, and my HDD is 250 GB, separated into two partitions (Daul boot XP/7). There's about 62 GB left.

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#4 Myzz617
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I haven't heard clicking noises, and my HDD is 250 GB, separated into two partitions (Daul boot XP/7). There's about 62 GB left.

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go into bios and self test ur hdd
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I haven't heard clicking noises, and my HDD is 250 GB, separated into two partitions (Daul boot XP/7). There's about 62 GB left.

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a low disk space can affect performance...since u have two partitions, how much space are allocated on both and how much is left? and which parition are u having issues with?