pages load very slow

[becca32428]

I have a dell demsion 2350 1.8 ghz processor 768 mb ram 30 gig hard drive and 80 gig slave drive. I recently had to have my hard drive reformated and of course lost every thing, now my computer is so slow it takes forever to load pages...I have the ccleaner zonealarm I also run spybot and adaware. Of course I only have dial up and I know thats always slow but it is way slower than before, also how can I reinstall my sp2 without it taking 75 hours ? Much thanks for any and all help

[Fed]

For what it's worth, I picked up SP2 on a disk that came with a computer magazine. It worked perfectly.
I believe that Microsoft will also mail one to you.

*Edit*
Speed? Is your computer protected and free of nasties?

Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Highly recommended second Online Malware Scan
http://www.ewido.net/en/

Being a fresh install means nothing as you can be infected in just seconds.

[becca32428]

I downloaded the ewido scan and it found one problem that adaware or spybot did not ...thanks and yes I do have norton  and it is up to date, but it is still running very slow...maybe it is dying   thanks for the help.

[GX1_Man]

When you reinstalled did you install the chipset drivers from the Dell site, or from your CD you got with the machine?

[becca32428]

I re-installed from my disks that I got with/computer and it is ntfs and I dont know how to find the allocation units ?     THANKS you guys are great! oh I am sorry I see I have to do chdisk will try that

[becca32428]

ok ran chkdsk and it was in read only.......I am really a computer dummy so please expalin further   thanks

[GX1_Man]

What about the chipset drivers?