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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1529858" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Definitely need to verify and run Repair if it returns any issue. If the drive proves not to have any issues...</p><p></p><p>If you don't have a backup, I would strongly encourage you to backup that drive before doing much else to be on the safe side.</p><p></p><p>Either the drive is beginning to go south or:</p><p></p><p>Biggest problem I see is 19 GB free on a 150 GB drive. That's <13% free space - just not enough and on a machine that old, what free space there is will be scattered from one end of the drive to the other along with the apps and data it's trying to retrieve. Have seen a lot of folks say you can run an OS on 12GB to 10% free space, but I've never sat at a computer running a HDD with less than 20-25% free space that I didn't get up from frustrated. At less than 15% and never been defragged, every time it needs to write anything to the drive, it's having to hunt for contiguous blocks - then not finding any and writing data to multiple areas on the drive.</p><p></p><p>The 2 GB of RAM is probably contributing to it, but not nearly as much as the full drive.</p><p></p><p>And your page outs in that screen shot is sitting at zero - don't know how you can get any better than that. Another sign - at this point - it's not due to lack of available RAM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1529858, member: 24160"] Definitely need to verify and run Repair if it returns any issue. If the drive proves not to have any issues... If you don't have a backup, I would strongly encourage you to backup that drive before doing much else to be on the safe side. Either the drive is beginning to go south or: Biggest problem I see is 19 GB free on a 150 GB drive. That's <13% free space - just not enough and on a machine that old, what free space there is will be scattered from one end of the drive to the other along with the apps and data it's trying to retrieve. Have seen a lot of folks say you can run an OS on 12GB to 10% free space, but I've never sat at a computer running a HDD with less than 20-25% free space that I didn't get up from frustrated. At less than 15% and never been defragged, every time it needs to write anything to the drive, it's having to hunt for contiguous blocks - then not finding any and writing data to multiple areas on the drive. The 2 GB of RAM is probably contributing to it, but not nearly as much as the full drive. And your page outs in that screen shot is sitting at zero - don't know how you can get any better than that. Another sign - at this point - it's not due to lack of available RAM. [/QUOTE]
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