i think it may be my hard drive because it makes a horrible noise when its running. i have a service plan with circuit city but they wont do shit because they're telling me its a virus.
my symptons are the computer takes super long to load up windows. it may take up in excess of 5 minutes to just get to the screen where i need to put in my password. when i do have access to my desktop all my programs and the things i do take very long to do whatever.
if i open up a folder it will take a long time for the folder to open up.
if i'm trying to play a video from my hard drive it takes long for winamp to open, and when it does open it doesnt play correctly, like only the sound will play.
i have an external hard drive. when i open up files on my external they open up at the normal speed. also, if im trying to play music/video's from the external everything runs fine.
i tried to move all the files i needed onto my external so i wont lost too much information. the files transfer onto the hard drive VERY slowly. something that would usually only take 20 seconds to move now takes in excess of 3 minutes. 3 minutes might not sound long but thats like a 4-5 times longer than usual. i actually didn't get to move all my files because some would take 200 minutes and counting.
i'm scanning my computer now for virus's and its been 56 minutes and only 6% is completed. it takes forever just to move from one file to the next. i'm not a computer wiz but if its taking super long to look into a file, i'm thinking something is fucked up with the hard drive. the horrible whinning noise it makes kinda makes me lean towards this conclusion.
is there any type of virus that can slow down your whole computer? like make all your files, folders, programs run slower? or does the fucked up hard drive theory of mine fits the description?
the stuff i download are usually direct download stuff or files from bittorrent.
i only download anime/manga stuff. nothing else.