Paul Webster wrote: > Hi (again)! I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu, a refugee from the > Windows Wonderland, and I like it very much. However, lately the hard > disk churns and churns, almost all the time, and startup is very slow. > Even writing this email has taken a long time, because sometimes > everything else comes to a halt. > > Please, somebody, help! > > Paul When you say it's churning, do you mean the disk is constantly running?
Is the drive making any clicking/knocking/whirring noises? It may be possible that the drive is on the way out. Open up a terminal and run the command dmesg Have a look and see if it mentions any errors, it may be an error like disk read error or something like that. Or it could be as suggested something using all the resources. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
