TSGL: Hard Drive Thrashing

[Alan Mitchell]

Gene,

Sorry, but have to know a little more about your utility software and OS. 

First, which OS are you running? Do you have it set to automatically index
your files?
Which utilities are you running? Backup software? Antivirus? Spyware
detector? Google desktop? Any of the "system utilities" like Norton
SystemWorks?

Any and all of these can cause hard disk activity in the background,
depending on what's running and what options you have chosen. You might
download a copy of What'sRunning
(http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx) and take a look at
what's going on when your disk is being accessed. 

Once you determine what it is (and hopefully it's benign and not a malware
infection), then you can use the application's options to set the
scan/verify/index/etc to run at more convenient times.

Alan 

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of gene
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:41 AM
To: list at tsgserver.com
Subject: TSGL: Hard Drive Thrashing

Hello Everyone,
    Hope someone can help me with this problem. My hard drive keeps
thrashing every now and then for a reason I can't figure out.
I have a hp pavilion dv6000. I have tried to isolate the problem but it just
seems to arbitrarily do it whenever it feels like it. 
Anytime, surfing, working off-line or whatever.
Can anyone give me some ideas i can try to stop it or can't i stop it, is it
just an inherent thing?
Thanks,
Gene


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