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re: Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive'
Monday, January 13, 2003 at 7:14 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lars
(2 messages posted)
We both hav exactly the same problem. Ok, i alreadi scan both my Maxtor & Western
Digital for virus wif e latest Norton Antivirus definitions & no virus found & i
disable Norton Antivirus scanning before but it's still like that. Then i disable
INDEXING & i also go to ADMIN>SERVICES & then disable the INDEXING & set both the
RPCs to automatic (why do we need to do that?)......& i discover something, eventhough
i hav deleted those C & D drive folders under Indexing Services\System\Directories,
i discover tat i still left one out which i'm gonna delete it away now frm Indexing
Service\ which is D:\System Volume Information. Dunno if this will help cos i alreadi
stop the Indexing Service.
Task Manager didnt help much though....most of the programs like even KaZaaLite isnt
using much resources.....Oh ya, i found this frm the ADMIN TOOLS\EVENT VIEWER\SYSTEM\.......this
is the message--->>"The driver disabled the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1."......i
saw this "!" sign wif the message appearing a number of times in the long list of
the events. Do u noe wats this abt? Thanxs. I will let u noe if my problem can be
soved later on....Thanxs for yur info.
On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 1:12 am, HAIvey wrote:
>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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