Another consideration that may be your cause for slow speed is virtual memory. If possible, turn it off. This should significantly speed things up for you.
As for Norton reporting bad sectors on your hard drive, my understanding is that that's a sure sign your hard drive is failing. Given the nature of bad sectors, they're like a virus, and spread to other parts of of your hard drive.
Considering this, I'd suggest you back up any and all needed files from your drive, and then install a new one.
Sorry for the bad news ....
Bill
At 1:27 PM -0800 4/11/2003, brian wenyon wrote:
Guys,
Need some input on my starmax problem.
My system takes forever to load/startup, it also takes time once its loaded.
I have replaced the battery, it was down to 4.0 volts.
I have initialized the hard drive and tested with Norton for problems. There were some bad blocks that it fixed. Now it tests OK.
I loaded in the original Motorola program software and it still runs very slow almost in slow motion. I was running V9.0 before the problem.
Is my hard drive ready for the trash?
Any ideas would be appreciated?
thanks
brian
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