Computer problem

[TGW_400ex]

So randomly he other day my computer started slowing down and the audio driver quit working. I ran malwarebytes on it and found no infected objects. I eventually then reformatted it and now the sound works but it's stating and the computer is still slow. Do you think my hard drive is bad? I'm running xp btw.

[Stickman400]

How old is the computer and how much stuff is on the hard drive? My dad had an old Dell running XP for the last 4 years or more, it had ALOT of stuff on it, and it was running slow all the time. We took it to a local computer shop and they told us the HD was toast and we needed to get a new one. Well my dad just decided to buy a new tower and they just moved everything they could off the HD and on to the new tower. So I hate to tell you but you may need to get a new HD and copy everything onto it. XP is getting really old and no one likes working with it anymore.

[TGW_400ex]

I reformatted it so nothing is on it? Jus a fresh copy of xp.

[SpasticR450]

Same thing happens to my computers. I don't know why they slow down even if I free up a lot of space it don't help much if at all and I some how lose more and more space when i don't add anything new to my computers. But new hard drives don't cost much. For the price a lot of places charge to fix a computers is almost as much as a new hard drive.
I down loaded google chrome and it made internet a lot faster and my one computer wont play sound but when im on google chrome it will play sound.