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Originally Posted by kinetic
Thanks so much for the help Andrew.
I did a complete backup (.bkf) last night to an external HD via the
USB 1.0 port.....reallly slow, took all night to create a 22G file, but I
think that's partly due to the internal HD starting to fail (original problem).
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Windows taking ages to do anything on a disk that's ever been close to full (within about 15%) is par for the course. Even on a disk with no hardware errors.
Defrag helps. SysInternals "pagedfrg" will clean up stuff Windows is incapable of doing.
Having twice as much disk as you are ever likely to need is the best answer.
RAID (not RAID0) is the hardware failure solution, but not many laptops support it.