Recent content by Intrepid100

Hi Episodic, The 1TB Seagate HDD that came with the Dell laptop from the factory and which failed in Seagate Seatools is what makes the Laptop slow. Because Seagate, not Dell, is the manufacturer, and Seagate's diagostics failed that drive, I believe it is clear that the drive is faulty...

Hi Episodic, Thanks for your comment. Yes, I thought about putting an SSD in there, but then I would not get the service I paid for. Also, the drive that came with the system is a 1TB, which (1) I need for the work I do and (2) which I paid for when I bought the system and which I paid...

I have a dilemma. I have a Dell Inpiron 5520 Laptop with an Intel i5, 8GB RAM and a Seagate 1TB HDD that came with Windows 7 installed, which I later upgraded to Windows 8. The computer was running horribly slow in Windows 8: 15 minutes to boot, 10 minutes to launch task manager, 10...