2006-12-22 23:51:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
yes, coz there is data that is still being used from the D:
clean the clutter and defragment your drives
2006-12-22 23:54:41 · answer #1 · answered by nonickforme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on how you have your OS and the software you have installed on your computer configured. If the drive is listed in your path or any of software uses it in anyway by default, then yes it will slow down your system when either you are using your computer or using that particular software title depending on which case your configuration happens to fall into.
I have one computer that I leave on all the time, because it intercepts my faxes and it has multiple hard drives in it, which I share across my network. The system runs mostly maintainence free, because I scheduled the tasks to run over night when the system is not being used. I just check it periodically to make sure everything is running ok. I also manually check of updates once a month, even though I have the system picking them up automatically. The reason is I have found that automatic updates do not pick up all the updates.
By the way, I can't help wonder what kind of item you have hooked up as your D:drive. I mean, I know slow, cluttered and heavily fragmented hard drives will make a PC move at a snail's pace, but not if it's dirty. My first thought was that maybe you were a potato farmer and you took one from the field without cleaning it off and somehow managed to hook it up to your computer as your D:drive. LOL
2006-12-23 08:57:41 · answer #2 · answered by JSalakar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not depend on which drive you have set up the primary drive. But certainly there is a performance penalty for uncluttered and unformatted drive. However lots of performance difference shouldn't have been observed.
Try Defragmenting the drive to see if it helps.
2006-12-23 08:16:59 · answer #3 · answered by waamax 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you are booting from that drive and all of your programs are installed on that drive. I have my 40gb Hard drive slam full of stuff...and my computer is running fine off of my 80gb Hard drive (even with Vista).
2006-12-23 07:54:10 · answer #4 · answered by troubled1367 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://ccleaner.com
2006-12-23 08:23:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋