My shit is very slow. The past week my lappy has really slowed down and the harddrive sounds like a train chugging. More like tap-tap-tap-tap and so on while it accesses data. It takes about 10 minutes for it to boot to welcome screen. I know it is probably the HDD, but I recently got it. I've got the viruses/adware off and reset the drives. I know sometimes they go into PIO transfer mode and that will slow these the hell down. I fixed that, but it's still not much faster. Funny thing is sometimes it will run perfectly, but turn it off and back on and it acts like it doesn't want to start. This isn't the first drive that's been in. This laptop unfortunately has a desktop processor in it and I'm wondering if it's getting so hot, it's killing harddrives? I'm thinking about using an external. I have a Compaq NX9010
As I was typing this, it would freeze for about 5 seconds constantly and come back.