Hi,

A few weeks ago, i decided to take the HDD out of my old computer and stick it into my current computer as a secondary one. After some fiddling with the IDEs i got them both working together on 'cable select' so niether was master or slave, but it booted up so i was happy.

However, the new HDD that i put in was very slow at transfering things over to it and often shut down the computer, maybe from overheating so i took it out and put everything back to normal. But no nearly 2 weeks on, my computer is still very slow, taking nearly 10 mins to startup and shut down, and opening programs takes forever.

An example of the slowness is, i use pinnacle studio 9 to edit captured movies, to get the movie from the DV tape to the computer you need at least a 4Mb Data Rate and i am currently getting no more than 3MB. Usually this Data Rate is 30 - 35Mb, so you can see the major change in speed.

I have tried setting the old HDD to master to see if it workds any faster but had no luck.

Currently the HDD is set to Primary Master.
The CD-Drive is set to Primary Slave.
And the DVD-Drive is set to Secondary Slave. (I'm not sure if it was like this before but it is connected at the end of the cable)

Any help would be lovely.

Tom

The HDD that you took out of the one computer and put in the other could it have possibly had a virus/spyware ? I would suggest Scanning. For Viruses I suggest nod32, and for Spyware I suggest Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy, and You should also download HijackThis, (Just google them). Once you have them installed update them (you can't update Hijackthis), then scan. With Nod32, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, Just scan and delete everything they find, With HijackThis Just press 'Do a System scan and save a log file, and paste the log file here.

found no viruses, i have ad-aware, avast spybot and AVG already.
attached is the log file

Attached Files

hijackthis.log (18.5 KB, 5 views)

Ill check the log file in a minute, Also Have you tried setting one as the Master and one as the Slave ?

Hya EthnicTom.

Looks like you are using two AV's and no firewall , to prevent conflict and performance problems i would disable/uninstall one of the AV's

AVG7
avast!

And have a look in our download section for some free firewall's if you want.

Boot in safemode (hit f8 when booting up) and fix this line with hjt:

O2 - BHO: CDLPObj Object - {BE2ED590-CA49-46B5-8CCE-244FB2E0D1AA} - C:\WINDOWS\DLP.dll

Manually delete the file in bold , reboot to normal mode and post a new hjt log please.

sorry about the late reply,

i've done the things u told me, here is the log file:

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hijackthis.log (18.1 KB, 1 views)