How do you know if you have an affected model?  My friend's Dell desktop
had just run out of warranty when its Maxtor drive started showing these
problems.

At 06:03 PM 12/19/2004 -0600, Chris Knight wrote:
>Ok, I've been monitoring this forum for a long time, however I would like to
>point out one things that may not been known.   Dell has put an unofficial
>recall of some hard drives due to a high failure rate.  The replacement is
>Western Digital drives.  You may want to check what kind of drive you have
>on your dell labtop or desktop and contact dell about this issue.  I haven't
>been able to find any documentation about this,  however I know where I
>worked got a huge shipment (several hundred drives from dell about two
>months ago and replaced the affected models. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] On
>Behalf Of Mike Ellsworth
>Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:24 PM
>To: 'Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List'
>Subject: RE: [TCWUG] FYI - Win XP slowdown fix
>
>I had almost the same scenario with my Dell laptop. However, before I had to
>replace the drive, I had a severe slowdown in XP that turned out to be that
>one of my memory slots decided to quit. I was trying to run with 128MB,
>which made XP thrash to a disk that was on the verge of going out itself.
>Oddly, this happened mere days after I extended my warranty for another two
>years. I'd rather be lucky than good!
>
>So make sure all your memory is showing up as well.
>
>Mike Ellsworth
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] On
>Behalf Of Haudy Kazemi
>Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 1:11 PM
>To: Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List
>Subject: RE: [TCWUG] FYI - Win XP slowdown fix
>
>I don't mind occasional off-topic info on this list, as the message volume
>is generally very low.  I ran into this WinXP issue recently on a friend's
>Dell desktop PC when troubleshooting its sudden 'slowness' in launching
>apps or doing anything drive-related.  I looked in the Event Viewer and
>found various drive errors listed.  I then got a copy of the Maxtor drive
>diagnostic tools which identified the drive as actually having a problem,
>and that it should be replaced ASAP.  So I guess what I'm suggesting is if
>anyone has recently had WinXP do this (become slow due to the drive), that
>they get out their drive diagnostic tools and see if there is a hardware
>problem that is putting your data at risk.
>
>At 10:56 AM 12/18/2004 -0600, Chuck Cole wrote:
>>Some of us in TCWUG are required to use XP for business, due to use of
>OutLook features for calendar and scheduling, etc.  I want to
>>use Linux more but can't make the switch completely and still have some
>unresolved setup bugs after a disk crash and those limit my
>>Linux usage quite a bit.  I appreciate that OT info.
>>
>>Chuck
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org
>>> [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org]On Behalf Of Rob Wentworth
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 8:55 AM
>>> To: Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List
>>> Subject: Re: [TCWUG] FYI - Win XP slowdown fix
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry. It's just that so many people I know have been complaining about
>XP
>>> slowdowns, I thought somebody in the group might be able to use this...
>>>
>>> Perhaps I should have put :Off Topic" in the subject line?
>>>
>>> Or is it better to to let people just give on on XP and switch to a
>"real"
>>> operating system?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at poptix.net>
>>> To: "Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List" <tcwug-list at tcwug.org>; "Rob
>>> Wentworth" <mail at RobWentworth.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:49 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [TCWUG] FYI - Win XP slowdown fix
>>>
>>>
>>> > You seem to be confused, this is the Twin Cities Wireless Users Group.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:53:04PM -0600, Rob Wentworth wrote:
>>> >> If anybody on the list has problems with a Win XP system that has
>become
>>> >> painfully slow despite virus and spyware removal, the following tips
>may
>>> >> help:
>>> >
>>> > [snip]
>>> >
>>> > --
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