Slow Windows 7 hard drive performance

[Silverado SS]

My computer has been running unbearably slow when extracting archives, loading games & programs, and starting. My drive health checks out fine. Here is a screen shot of my HD Tune performance.

It is a 320gb 7200rpm Western Digital sata drive. I am running an Abit IP35 Pro mobo with a Q6600 @ 3.6ghz using Win 7 x64. I have installed all the intel chipset drivers. Here is a screen shot of my device manager.



any ideas what is causing this terrible performance?

 

[RM_Bulldog]

i would reinstall chipset drivers if that dosnt work maybe reformat the drive

 

[Old Hippie]

Look at the Access time and burst rate.

 

[[LYL]Homer]

Do you have any crapware/spyware running in the background that is scanning the hard drive?

 

[Old Hippie]

How 'bout a screenshot of the "Processes" from the Task Manager?

 

[Silverado SS]

Here is a screen shot of my processes.



I uninstalled the SATA drives and reinstalled them and am now getting this.



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Looks much better. I will report back after I extract some archives.