At 10:35 AM 8/22/2009, Tony B wrote: >Certainly neither of you is suggesting his slow boot has to do with his >drive being vibrated by a fan????
Not directly, but fan vibration could cause an imperfect write leading to later slow reads. If the reads are part of the boot process, then the boot process would be slowed. In my case, a particular application was very slow to load. (not a boot process load) Spinrite cleaned up the disk and cured the slow load. I'm speculating that the slow read of the executable file was due to a bad write in the past, caused by fan vibration. Fan is in the docking station enclosure of the hard drive. "Mobile Rack" Fred Holmes ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
