dont remember

in IRC abotu 2 months ago, some1 gave me 2 serial number for counter strike, 1 was half life the other was counter strike, i really wanna know who it was as i have forgotten, i think it was akaruz...

Don't you log your chats?

If you are not sure then just check your mirc directory and all.

If you do then search your logs for like serial number etc.

formatted PC since then

Formats are so 1995... i haven't formatted my disk for like 3-4 years now...

I do it every month :D

ok ok we're gettin off topic

btw formattin ur hd aint good =/

I know, it makes weird noises and starts going VERY slow

just to know how much we get riped off at greece every gig is 2 euros :P (to buy hard drive)

Ok 2 things, first of all if it makes noises then it's probably a piece of junk, second if it goes slow then optimize it.

You see a harddrive works with empty spots and all, let's say each spot is 1 mb, and it has totally 10mb

If it's completely full then it will look like this - X X X X X X X X X X

Now you are removing a program of 2 mb and one of 3 mb, the 2 mb was something you installed early on, and the 3 mb was the second last thing you installed, now that you removed it the harddrive will look like this - X X O O X X O O O X

There aren't problems now, but now see what happens when you install something of 4 mb. N = New program

X X N N X X N N O X

As you can see the new program hasn't got the parts next to each other, so when you use that program, then it will be requesting data from all 4 spots, but because they are far away from each other it will need some time to get to the other parts, making it respond slow.

If you run a optimizer then it will switch things around, so that all the data will be near each other, so it would look something like this

X X N N N N X X X O

It will always put the open spots at the end, because if it wouldn't then the next time you put something on it then the same thing might happen.


Now i don't know what kind of harddrive you got, but if you got 1 of those older and smaller 5400 rpm harddrives then it will be pretty slow, and if you would have to delete stuff all the time for other stuff, then things really get messy fast.

So just let it optimize for a night every once in a while, it will be then just as quick, and you won't have to re-install all the time.

hahaha!
thats nice and all, thanks for your help
"The disk is damaged and cannot be optimized"
It used to work one year ago =/

Did you already tryed running scandisk? (is it still called that?)

It does on me ! :D
Yes i did, it didnt come up with any problems in there.

That's odd, if there would be bad sectors then it should find them, anyway then i don't exactly know what's wrong with it.

Try posting it over at www.xtremepccentral.com maybe someone there knows, but there is a good chance that you should just buy a new harddrive, which isn't that bad most of the time because they are cheap and very big these days, i really want to buy a big one myself these days.

Your advise is good - buy a new hard drive.
lets say i want a 100gig one i need 200 euros.Im not rich, i dont get money from family

it was quiks. He told me he gave his CD key to u to play... Bit of a bastard when hes one of my best m8s n we used to play CS all the time. Hes damn good at it as well. He just doesent have a serial to play with anymore

:( locking my own topci because of people going off topic, and theres nothing I can do, if you think you gave me 2 serials pm me plz

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