thrashing HD

19 Mar 2005 4:19 PM

old railroader

this is about to drive poor me insane... 1st off this machine has
512mb of RAM, the HD is completely defragged,it has a less than 6
month old Western Digistal HD which the Western Digital utility gives
a clean bill of health, but the slightest thing you do: click on a
link in IE for example and the HD launches into a wild frenzy of
grinding and crunching sometime for as long as 10 minutes... it seems
as if this has become gradually worse, not sure but its driving me
nuts

19 Mar 2005 5:35 PM

Galen

In news:bmjo31pu4q91gp24jfrhphnpa838ns41ci@4ax.com,

old railroader <emailadr***@emailserver.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> this is about to drive poor me insane... 1st off this machine has
> 512mb of RAM, the HD is completely defragged,it has a less than 6
> month old Western Digistal HD which the Western Digital utility gives
> a clean bill of health, but the slightest thing you do: click on a
> link in IE for example and the HD launches into a wild frenzy of
> grinding and crunching sometime for as long as 10 minutes... it seems
> as if this has become gradually worse, not sure but its driving me
> nuts

Return it while you still can. Unless, of course, you have something that's
constantly trying to read/write to the drive all the time but that wouldn't
make a lot of sense.

Galen

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Signature changed for a moment of silence.
Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.

19 Mar 2005 5:41 PM

Tony Marziano

Save yourself the fustration and pain... ditch the HD and get yourselve
another one.
The spindal could have gone.

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"old railroader" wrote:

> this is about to drive poor me insane... 1st off this machine has
> 512mb of RAM, the HD is completely defragged,it has a less than 6
> month old Western Digistal HD which the Western Digital utility gives
> a clean bill of health, but the slightest thing you do: click on a
> link in IE for example and the HD launches into a wild frenzy of
> grinding and crunching sometime for as long as 10 minutes... it seems
> as if this has become gradually worse, not sure but its driving me
> nuts
>

19 Mar 2005 9:01 PM

dc

Take the HDD back for replacement. And get your data off it now.

don

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this is about to drive poor me insane... 1st off this machine has
512mb of RAM, the HD is completely defragged,it has a less than 6
month old Western Digistal HD which the Western Digital utility gives
a clean bill of health, but the slightest thing you do: click on a
link in IE for example and the HD launches into a wild frenzy of
grinding and crunching sometime for as long as 10 minutes... it seems
as if this has become gradually worse, not sure but its driving me
nuts

20 Mar 2005 12:46 AM

paulmd@efn.org

I hate to be a contrarian. But before you return it....

Do you have any viruses? Spyware? Malware?

Do you have a large number of programs that load right at startup?

Do you have processes in the background? Firewall? Virus checker? Disk
monitoring utilities?

Do you use IE toolbars?

Have you done a clean install (including a reformat)? If this is your
system drive, you'll have to anyway.