I ran windows defrag right when I noticed it took longer to load the user login. But that didn't seem to have any effect. This was on the windows partition. I can't remember if I ran scandisk, I'll try them both again. The system itself runs normally, but it's when i try to access the Recycling Bin or My Computer, that it struggles. Am I suppose to be able to see the other hard drive with linux on it, even though they aren't the same type of file system? Could I defrag the linux paritition in windows?