Vista slow as hell

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Ok, so i have vista ultimate x64 on my pc and i have posted a while ago that i was having problems with it, I discovered that my graphics card was to blame and got a nice shiney one(through RMA)

When i had the old gfx card i did get blue screens every 30 mins - 1 hour, do you think these blue screens could have damaged my install at all?

When i turn on my pc it takes around 20 mins to boot, i have no applications running apart from msn messenger,

Now i would usually just format and start again but i have a problem where when i try to backup my documents to my second hard drive vista decides it is going to take 8 hours to do so (why?)

Anyway i left it copying files overnight and when i came to my pc it had decided to restart in the night and only copied 2 files (way to go vista)

it also seems like svchost.exe is accessing my hard drive constantly and my hard drive is always around 90% of it's highest active time which is 10mb/s

All i want to know really is, is there a way i can copy my documents over to my 2nd hard drive without using vista? so i can get a fresh install going, or is there a way i can make vista useable again?

Thanks in advance
 
Lol, i would re-install but i would really like to keep my documents, i have a lot of pictures/videos and my whole music collection backed up there (which i really couldnt do again) its only 107gb and it wants to take 8 hours to copy, something must be going wrong there

*edit* ah, so the windows.old folder can just be deleted after?
 
as said if you do a fresh install form boot then it will store your old windows install in a folder called windows old which you can access all of you documents ect from.

If you want to clear the windows old folder after you have finished then just use dick cleanup and delete old windows install
 
vintage-x said:
as said if you do a fresh install form boot then it will store your old windows install in a folder called windows old which you can access all of you documents ect from.

If you want to clear the windows old folder after you have finished then just use dick cleanup and delete old windows install
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Thats true i have done that before
 
ah, thanks mate, i will try that now, will let you know how it goes when i'm back online, i'm sick of seeing the vista installer already :p
 
ok, i have done the re-install and updated all my drivers and i'm still copying files at a whooping 5MB/s my HDD is only getting a score of 2.1 in windows experience index too,

Do you guys think this is another dead component to add to my list?

I can't even get seatools to test my hdd as it doesnt support 64bit
 
I think i may have fixed it =D

I removed the jumper that restricted it to 1.5gb/s and my sequential read tests went from 5MB/s to 210MB/s

Quite an improvement :)

This jumper has always been there though and never caused a problem before, just hope it stays this way now
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
I think i may have fixed it =D

I removed the jumper that restricted it to 1.5gb/s and my sequential read tests went from 5MB/s to 210MB/s

Quite an improvement :)

This jumper has always been there though and never caused a problem before, just hope it stays this way now
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What were you using to check speeds? I've got a problem where when I copy a file and select the option to show the speed from the copy window, it's going about around 20mb/s. Doesn't seem very fast at all.

What HDD are you using?
 
I'm using a seagate 7200.9, there is a problem with slow copy speeds in vista but nowhere near as slow as i was getting, apparently MS are working on a fix as we speak
 
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