After 10 mins of using my computer it slows down like a baf engine.i think the hard drive is the problem.i installed windows xp sp2 on it several times formatting the hard and nothing...is my hard drive the problem?
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A 20Gb Quantum Fireball LCT20 could be nearing its life end considering the length of time it has been in service. Perhaps what could be done is to perform a burn-in test on the 20Gb HD attaches as a Slave or Secondary on a 2nd PC or alternately, as an external mass storage device through an IDE to USB adapter. Burn-in test would be a multiple time scanning fro errors as those used by Norton Disk Doctor. Alternately, you can also Partition Magic to partition/format and eventually test the HD.
In your concern of PC slow down after 10 minutes, it is possible that:
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.
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