Re: Sudden Slow Down in Performance

If you mean, literally fell kerplunk, and especially if it was running at the time, a disk surface may have been slightly marred in a head crash. When the controller/drive retry routines kick in on an unsuccessful access, they (a) often leave no footprints and (b) can take a looooong time retrying before they get a good read or write. This stuff is invisible to the OS, especially if the access succeeds eventually. If the access is critical path, like a pagefile or system routine that must complete for multitasking (or the OS itself) to resume, the slowdown will be very evident.

DEownload the (free) bootable disk diagnostic floppy images from each of your drive manufacturers, run them, see what they say.

POP3.demon.co.uk wrote:

We have an old HP server which fell over the weekend. Since then it has run incredibly slow.
We cannot open Control Panel and any attempt to install anything on it fails.
It times out when we try to halt any services
There is nothing showing in Task Manager that is hogging the processor
The disks are not full

Has anyone got any suggestions before I take to it with an axe!

Cheers

Tony



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