Dan Sarandrea:

Because I like to remain in control of my computer, and if there is any chance (however 
remote/ridiculous) of this being a hardware error I want to identify that within 
the first 30 days.

Charlie Hadden:

I'm already using SP1 (it was pre-installed) and have installed all of the latest 
windows updates except for windows defender. I'm using Avast anti-virus with just 
the standard and web shield providers. Neither scans the disk drive in the background. 
This problem occurred before I installed it.

I disabled the task scheduler from running defrag every wed at 1am. My impression 
is that some 3rd party disk defrag tools such as Diskkeeper will run automaticaly 
when the computer is idle, but the one included in Vista doesn't - it relies upon 
the task scheduler to run it automatically. 

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