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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
For example, if there has been some kind of hard drive glitch, it's possible that the OS has downgraded the speed with which the disk interfaces with the rest of the system. Not sure if the windows checkdisk is enough for every issue. You have to test how fast the disk handles and transmits data.
EDIT: it's possible my memory is playing tricks on me, but I recall something like that happening to me with a healthy disk, on Win XP. Either way, I recommend testing the disk and comparing the results to what kind of performance you're supposed to get from the model. I think the HD tune website has results that you can use.
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You're right. You're referring to Windows kicking the ATA controller from UltraDMA to PIO mode in the event that the system crashes too many times and it defaults to the failsafe PIO mode which is a POS superslow harddrive interface from the 1980s. IDE drives did this all the time and the hybrid IDE/SATA controllers too.