• Hard drive freezing up, going very slowly
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There's something horribly wrong with my hard drive. Basically if I open a folder it'll take a literal 2 minutes for the explorer window to unfreeze and let me select something. If I tell it to do a disk operation (write or delete a file) it'll freeze for another 2 minutes. But then actually do it. I just now told the explorer window to go up a directory and both that window and the taskbar are frozen. If I tell it to end the explorer process and start it again, the shit really hits the fan. The desktop icons disappear as the process restarts, and they come back up at about 2 every 10 seconds. It seems to be doing what I tell it, just at an unusably slow rate. It seems to work fine, at normal speed, up to a point because I know that until I try to delete, move, write or look into a file myself it loads up just like normal. It's pretty hard to know when it works and it doesn't but something's obviously wrong. I can't use it in this sorry state. Anyone know what's going on? The interesting thing is Firefox works fine, as do most programs. I can alt+tab between them at will.
It might not be a hard drive problem.
You may be right. I can open Windows Media player and play songs no problem. But any windows explorer windows still freeze up all the time. I just pressed the Start button and the commonly-used-programs list stayed frozen open for about 30 seconds with the little flashlight on it instead of any icons. Do you think I should run Checkdisk in full repair mode?
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