If you are intending to keep the PC for a while longer, maybe a new IDE hard disk might be worth investing in as I'm guessing the existing one is quite old and may be attributing (as others also say) to your speed issues.
You can connect the new one to the PC to install the OS on and then either connect the old disk up as a slave and transfer data across once the new disk has been rebuilt.
Easy for me to say, I know but if you have the £30-£40 spare you can pick a 250GB disk and minimises data loss providing you copy the data over ASAP.
You could also then format the old drive and turn it in to a external USB hard disk by mouting it into a caddy (£10-£15 off ebuyer)?
Last edited by: nice but dim on Tue 28 Jun 11 at 09:24
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