Can internal hard drives slow down?

[coldblackice]

I've got a successfully glitched Jasper 16MB with a 120GB internal microsoft drive.

When starting up (and as NXE is loading), I get the loading circle that goes on for a while, maybe 30+ seconds. If I boot up the xbox without the drive, it jumps straight into NXE.

I believe this slow loading behavior happened after I tried to connect the drive to my computer through the HD adapter v2.

I'm hoping that I didn't somehow damage. I'm wondering -- is it possible that I've somehow fragmented the drive or its file structure? I'm wondering if doing an NXE native wipe and reformat of the drive will restore it back to proper speed.

Any ideas?

 

[coldblackice]

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the insight.

I guess I'll test this by creating a new profile (without any connecting to live) and have it autologin. If it loads in fast, then it's just a matter of transferring game saves from the slow-loading profile to the new one, right?

 

[coldblackice]

Son of a gun -- you were right.

I made a new, blank profile, set it to auto login, restarted xbox, and bam -- went it very quickly.

So is there a way to "fix" my original profile? To make it stop trying to log in to live?

If not, would making a new profile and then transferring over all my saves/DLC/data work perfectly as well? Or will there be hiccups with that method?

Thanks

 

[coldblackice]

If I set the console to no auto-login to any profile, it either freezes on the Xbox 360 initial screen, or it takes a very long time to jump into FSD.

Then when I try to manually log in to my profile, it takes a long while to do so. Is this definitely an issue of it attempting to connect to Live, or could it be that it's taking a long time to parse through the profile's data (like saves, avatars, etc)?