Staggeringly slow HD
Afternoon all,
I have an old laptop, Dell Inspiron 7000 running W2K (300 Mhz I think, 330 Ram, 4GB HD), and the hard drive seems to take ages. Starting up, it takes nearly 5 minutes. During applications, it's always the HD that slows it down, rarely the CPU. I'm not running hardly anything on it, it's used for just Word/Excel, and a bit of internet through another PC (USB linked).
My question is, is there anything I can do to speed things up? I've run defrag, and also run PCpitstop, and that does not report anything. Can I get a faster drive installed, is that an option?
My other box, running tons of stuff (but on XP, not a laptop) boots up in seconds!
Cheers
Splat