- Hard drive working hard in idle
- Posted by MPerdue on October 4th, 2005
I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In the
last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent spurting
process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something and
cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when there
are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing it).
I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the machine is
clean.....
It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and what
can I do?
Thanks for your help.
- Posted by Bob I on October 4th, 2005
Someone enable "indexing"? R-click the drive icon, select properties,
bottom of the General tab.
MPerdue wrote:
> I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In the
> last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent spurting
> process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something and
> cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when there
> are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing it).
> I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the machine is
> clean.....
>
> It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and what
> can I do?
>
> Thanks for your help.
- Posted by MPerdue on October 4th, 2005
Indexing was already selected.
"Bob I" wrote:
> Someone enable "indexing"? R-click the drive icon, select properties,
> bottom of the General tab.
>
> MPerdue wrote:
>
> > I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In the
> > last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent spurting
> > process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something and
> > cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when there
> > are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing it).
> > I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the machine is
> > clean.....
> >
> > It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and what
> > can I do?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
>
- Posted by RJK on October 4th, 2005
"MPerdue" <MPerdue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55B0F015-F368-402A-A4D0-8FB012CE6176@microsoft.com...
> Indexing was already selected.
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>> Someone enable "indexing"? R-click the drive icon, select properties,
>> bottom of the General tab.
>>
>> MPerdue wrote:
>>
>> > I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In
>> > the
>> > last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent
>> > spurting
>> > process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something
>> > and
>> > cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when
>> > there
>> > are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing
>> > it).
>> > I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the
>> > machine is
>> > clean.....
>> >
>> > It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and
>> > what
>> > can I do?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
- Posted by RJK on October 4th, 2005
Well, delete "indexes" already created and select "Close and Stop" :-)
....then !
regards, Richard
"MPerdue" <MPerdue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55B0F015-F368-402A-A4D0-8FB012CE6176@microsoft.com...
> Indexing was already selected.
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>> Someone enable "indexing"? R-click the drive icon, select properties,
>> bottom of the General tab.
>>
>> MPerdue wrote:
>>
>> > I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In
>> > the
>> > last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent
>> > spurting
>> > process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something
>> > and
>> > cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when
>> > there
>> > are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing
>> > it).
>> > I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the
>> > machine is
>> > clean.....
>> >
>> > It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and
>> > what
>> > can I do?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
- Posted by Bob I on October 4th, 2005
That will use idle time to index the files, or you could pop taskmanager
open and "sort" by CPU usage to see what was active at the time the
"chatter" starts.
MPerdue wrote:
> Indexing was already selected.
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>Someone enable "indexing"? R-click the drive icon, select properties,
>>bottom of the General tab.
>>
>>MPerdue wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a 3 yr old notebook, P4-2.8mgh, 60gigHD running windows xp. In the
>>>last week it the hard drive started doing a prolonged intermittent spurting
>>>process, kind of hard to explain, but like it is looking for something and
>>>cant find it, or its in some kind of loop. It has even happened when there
>>>are no major programs running (I viewed task manager while it was doing it).
>>>I double checked for spy ware using Microsoft and Spybot and the machine is
>>>clean.....
>>>
>>>It is really irritating noise and it concerns me ... Whats going on and what
>>>can I do?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
