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4 mbps hard drive read speed?

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princess0fdiabl0

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ive posted this before, long ago, and no one could help me, but i thought it might possibly be a bit more widespread now.

see ive owned computers for quite some time now, the first one being in 1995. back then 4 mbps read speed on a hard drive was just about normal. In time as ive upgraded computers, ive transfered certain wanted files over to the new ones by swapping the old hard drive into the new machine for a temporary transfer. CPUs got faster, RAM bigger, video cards more kickass, yet the hard drive read/write speed always seemed slow. When i tried sandra sisoft a year or 2 back i compared my results to a friends. His showed hard drive speeds in the order of 35ish, mine was about...4. Wtf? something was up. Formatting does practically nothing. So i low level, phew, its back up to speed again!
Load a few standard apps i had burned to CD (drivers, winamp, norton etc) and low and behold, the slowness is back :( So all the CDs ive ever burned with my computer, is tainted. Okay its all just data, its replaceable. BUT i share my files with my friend all the time, no problems on his machine whatsoever. At some point in time i download 4 in 1 drivers for my mobo, and am amazed that its running at the proper speed again. I plug it into my friends network and POW! his computer has gotten the bad stuff now too. He low levels and tells me to stay away from his house ;) So the 4 in 1 drivers prevent the effects of (we called it) hg2v but delivered it immediately across a network. Was fine for home use as all my other computers were already infected, but id be satan to use it when i go to lan parties. So i dealt with it.. and dealt with it... i should just purge all my computers of the abomination but im too lazy, theres 6 computers, and one hard drive is a laptop one inside a virgin webplayer, ie no media drives, so id have to go buy an adaptor. Not to mention i KNOW i dont have the drivers for everything
The only way that ive found to remove it is to either low level format the hard drive, or the faster way (usually) is just to install linux over everything and reinstall windows. Im hoping to do the latter soon. Norton antivirus has never found anything with it ...and seeing as its a problem that exists outside of windows (dos) i cannot imagine what the hell is going on. It spreads randomly, sometimes staying relatively contained and even allowing safe file transfer, and other times plauging a new computer the first tiny mp3 that hits it. Always infects another hard drive when i have put them both in the same system. It is not an actively running program because as ive said it affects both windows and dos alike.
Does ANYONE know what is going on? years this has gone on, i dont know where it came from, ive just dealt with it. I hope maybe someone can answer for me, are there any solutions to this problem? my WD special edition is going to such waste:mad:
 
Originally posted by princess0fdiabl0
ive posted this before, long ago, and no one could help me, but i thought it might possibly be a bit more widespread now.

see ive owned computers for quite some time now, the first one being in 1995. back then 4 mbps read speed on a hard drive was just about normal. In time as ive upgraded computers, ive transfered certain wanted files over to the new ones by swapping the old hard drive into the new machine for a temporary transfer. CPUs got faster, RAM bigger, video cards more kickass, yet the hard drive read/write speed always seemed slow. When i tried sandra sisoft a year or 2 back i compared my results to a friends. His showed hard drive speeds in the order of 35ish, mine was about...4. Wtf? something was up. Formatting does practically nothing. So i low level, phew, its back up to speed again!
Load a few standard apps i had burned to CD (drivers, winamp, norton etc) and low and behold, the slowness is back :( So all the CDs ive ever burned with my computer, is tainted. Okay its all just data, its replaceable. BUT i share my files with my friend all the time, no problems on his machine whatsoever. At some point in time i download 4 in 1 drivers for my mobo, and am amazed that its running at the proper speed again. I plug it into my friends network and POW! his computer has gotten the bad stuff now too. He low levels and tells me to stay away from his house ;) So the 4 in 1 drivers prevent the effects of (we called it) hg2v but delivered it immediately across a network. Was fine for home use as all my other computers were already infected, but id be satan to use it when i go to lan parties. So i dealt with it.. and dealt with it... i should just purge all my computers of the abomination but im too lazy, theres 6 computers, and one hard drive is a laptop one inside a virgin webplayer, ie no media drives, so id have to go buy an adaptor. Not to mention i KNOW i dont have the drivers for everything
The only way that ive found to remove it is to either low level format the hard drive, or the faster way (usually) is just to install linux over everything and reinstall windows. Im hoping to do the latter soon. Norton antivirus has never found anything with it ...and seeing as its a problem that exists outside of windows (dos) i cannot imagine what the hell is going on. It spreads randomly, sometimes staying relatively contained and even allowing safe file transfer, and other times plauging a new computer the first tiny mp3 that hits it. Always infects another hard drive when i have put them both in the same system. It is not an actively running program because as ive said it affects both windows and dos alike.
Does ANYONE know what is going on? years this has gone on, i dont know where it came from, ive just dealt with it. I hope maybe someone can answer for me, are there any solutions to this problem? my WD special edition is going to such waste:mad:
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A friend of mine was forced to run PIO mode (really slow) becuase of an overheating northbridge, which caused data transfer errors. Windows then decided to lock all modes above PIO (as in no UDMA stuff). The only solution to this problem seems to be to reinstall windows.
 
as i think i stated.... multiple computers, formating doesnt work, different cables have been used (assuming you mean ide)
 
it sounds an awfull lot like a memory resident virus... a virus that is resident in the ram and in the boot up sector of the hard drive only. this is why the low level format worked, but when you started putting shit back on it it started to slow down. Well, I'd low level format it again and throw out all the cds you have... that's me though, someone else might have an opinion.

~Adam
 
i figured thats what i have to do, just had hoped there was another way around it. Real problem is i have to do it to all 6 computers at the same time, or risk infection again, then find drivers for the old shit >.<. fun fun fun~
 
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