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HDD activity - why??
Name: Robin Date: April 6, 2000 at 16:01:31 Pacific
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Overnight my HDD has started clacking away which obviuously interferes with defrags etc. -- can anyone tell me, apart from running msconfig 500 times, how I can detect what's causing this? TIA
You leave your computer on at night, I assume? How old is the drive? You could Ctrl+Alt+Del and cancel one profgram at a time; when the clacking stops, the last program you canceled would be the one causing it. Much more likely to be a dying drive, though, I think.
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Response Number 2
Name: Andro Matt Date: April 6, 2000 at 17:29:56 Pacific
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A scheduled task would be the first thing to come to my mind...
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Response Number 3
Name: stitchy Date: April 7, 2000 at 14:20:20 Pacific
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I posted a similar post two months ago, nobody suggested anything any good. I found out it was Microsoft FindFast, updating it's database. If you have Word or Office installed, go into your startup folder and delete the shortcut in there for FindFast. Works for me! This program is a real pig for sticking this shortcut in there when you don't even want it. Try that, if you have it.
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