I too would go for that bigger disk. I put in a bigger disk earlier this year and am quite happy. They even make 500 GB 2.5 disks now, but the 300 GB are the sweet spots.

Stewart


At 10:46 AM 7/1/2009, you wrote:
Yes, I would run a SMART check on the disk before going to that
trouble. But really, 100G is small by today's standards, so I'd
probably replace it anyway. $65 will get you 320G in a 2.5" drive
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145256).


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Frank Sestir<[email protected]> wrote:
> No, Task Manager shows that almost no cpu cycles are being used. I am doing
> a delete partition and reformatting the HD again. Then I'll try another
> reinstall.  The HD is a 100GB disk and takes a real long time to format...
> I'm thinking that this may be the culprit.


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