>>Now my build times have gone back to 24-25 seconds instead of 8-9 secs. Wierd but I can live with that. Remember that my new HW is still unpacked an hour's drive away.
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>Now that sounds like HD trouble - either trying to read from a nearly dead sector or trying to find "clean" sectors to write on.

Why does it sound like HW trouble? I can hear the disk when its working. It's not.


>Save everything (neccessary for jumping to new HW anyhow) *chkdisk* / defrag a few times. Best with a tool that supports rearranging files.
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>regards
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>thomas

Always do. :-)

Peter