re: Summary of steps taken for 'Wildly Access Hard Drive'
Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 6:10 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lars
(2 messages posted)
Yup, it works. Both my HDDs r quieter now. After i disable Indexing & delete e folders
tat r under Indexing Services in Admin Tools\Computer Management & also disable Indexing
under HDD's properties. Now my system runs much faster too.
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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