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Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive'
Monday, January 13, 2003 at 1:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by HAIvey
(1 messages posted)
Lars,
I had the same problem recently, here is a summary of what I did:
Note: after every step, rebooted the machine to see if that step did the trick...
1. checked for viruses - none found
2. disabled virus checker - still had problem
3. reviewed high CPU / high IO via Task Manager and Performance Monitor - nothing
obvious and nothing I eliminated cured the problem (and I must say Windows really
does supply some excellent monitoring tools - too bad MS does not explain them well!!!)
4. verified that the RPC services (in the CP|Admin Tools|Services) were auto start
- still no cure
5. verified there was no file indexing done by checking the Search Results window
option and by checking the My Computer|Hard Disk Drive|Properties|Allow Indexing
... option - still no cure
6. checked the status of the disk by My Computer|Hard Disk Drive|Properties|Tools|Error
Checking|Check Disk Local Disk|Auto fix (Y), Scan for (Y) and had it run at the next
boot up - cure!
The Event Log (CP|Admin Tools|Events) did show Errors concerning disk blocks being
invalid but I did not look at this until the very end...
Good luck,
hai.
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On Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 11:06 am, lars wrote:
>i hav the same disk thrashing problem wif XP Pro. even when i move my mouse or open
>some folder, i can hear my hard disk. I hav check using yur advice but the process
>using e most CPU time is the "System Idle Process". U cant disable tat,right? Anyone
>can help us wif this problem? i'm having 2 HDD, one is 40GB Maxtor & 60GB Western
>Digital. Both 7200rpm.
>
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