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How much disk space is there?<br />
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Have a look at Task Manager and see if there is a big memory hogger.<br />
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How much memory do you have, and how much are you using?
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How much disk space is there?

Have a look at Task Manager and see if there is a big memory hogger.

How much memory do you have, and how much are you using?

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Hi,<br />
<br />
One of the laptops in my office is acting very strangely.<br />
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It has become so slow. &nbsp;I ran chkdsk and it was stuck at 16% for two days. &nbsp;I am trying to get as much as of data out possible.<br />
<br />
any ideas? &nbsp;thanks<br />
<br />
Windows 8.1
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Hi,

One of the laptops in my office is acting very strangely.

It has become so slow.  I ran chkdsk and it was stuck at 16% for two days.  I am trying to get as much as of data out possible.

any ideas?  thanks

Windows 8.1

Hard Drive

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

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