<holysmokes99********.com> wrote in message
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> Lately my computer has been having real trouble playing videos
> (extremely jerky), and even scrolling through a long list of files in
> a directory in windows explorer (jerky scrolling). I ran some tests
> using HD Tune and HD Tach to see if it was a hard drive issue, and low
> and behold the read speed is terrible. I am getting a maximum read
> rate of about 4MB/Sec. My drive is a 120GB Maxtor 4R120LO. Is there
> anything I can do to fix this? I defragged it but no difference. Can
> it be saved?
>
> Thanks
> Marcus

I once had a similar problem. I had set up my PC with two CD drives and two
hard drives. I thought I would get better hard drive access if I put one CD
and one hard drive on eaxh of the IDE cables. With their locations in the
PC case, it seemed best to make the CDs the primary and the hard drives the
secondary devices. Big mistake. It was sooooooo slow. Changing the hard
drives to primary device on both IDE cables solved the problem.

-Paul Randall