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Hard drive going insane on me
Name: Koby Date: February 3, 2003 at 21:50:25 Pacific OS: XP home CPU/Ram: N/a
Comment:
Ok, page file is a 100 megs or so, cpu usage is at 6%. I can not open anything that requires explorer and the hard drive is working constantly and hard as it can. Y?!?! I finally get it to restart, and I get a "windwos has just recovered from serious system error" or whatev. Everything is fine and the little letter from M$ to u says we're researching the problem. Wth hell only takes up 6% of ur cpu from time to time, 100 megs for a page file, and constantly uses ur hard drive??? What did they screw up?
Name: Sandman Date: February 4, 2003 at 04:39:17 Pacific
Reply:
Did you set your pagefile down to 100 megs?
Sandman
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Response Number 3
Name: Koby Date: February 4, 2003 at 12:02:49 Pacific
Reply:
No, I have it set on 512megs min and max.
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Response Number 4
Name: Sandman Date: February 5, 2003 at 03:53:04 Pacific
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How much ram do you have installed?
Sandman
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Response Number 5
Name: Koby Date: February 6, 2003 at 00:16:34 Pacific
Reply:
256 megs at 400mhz
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Response Number 6
Name: Sandman Date: February 6, 2003 at 04:43:34 Pacific
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This is about the only thing I can think of. If your drive is ntfs make sure indexing is disabled. Open My computer and right ciick on your harddrive. Uncheck "Allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching". If thats not it you may want to scan for viruses. If you don't have any AV software you can do an online scan at http://housecall.antivirus.com
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