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Old 03-21-2004, 08:32 PM  
Ash@phpFX
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Originally posted by fuzebox
Well technically it should be faster, as your data is now being written onto the outer edge of the drive itself. Since the whole disc is spinning at the same speed, the magnet will read way more data in the same amount of time on the outer edge

Of course this goes way beyond most people's disk-access problems, so yes, you're probably fragged to hell.
spot on, definately try a defrag. if its running really slow make sure there arent other devices on the ide chain that are slowing it down, ive seen that happen before
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