In message , KenK
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Paul wrote in news
KenK wrote:
I have an old Compaq Presario 5000 running XP I got as a gift. It did
not include the XP install disk.

This system is extremely slow. I DLed and printed several web sites'
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Here's a simple place to start.

http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe
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Is the graph a nice curve, like the promotional picture
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The curve from the HD Tune is very jagged, far up and down close spaced
excursions, not wide smooth steps as it should be, Yellow dots very
scattered. So HD is shot. Now to decide if system is worth putting in a
new HD. No XP install disk so will only be able to run Linux, etc.
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If it's working, however slowly, you don't need an XP install disc to
save it with a new HD, only imaging software (Macrium 5 - or, probably,
later - will do fine). [Assuming you've got somewhere you can put the
image, of course, such as an external HD, and something to read the
Macrium boot CD you make.] Whether worth doing is up to you.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

By most scientific estimates sustained, useful fusion is ten years in
the future - and will be ten years in the future for the next fifty
years or more. - "Hamadryad", ~2016-4-4