churning at startup....

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

With Windows XP Pro, it starts up and the hard drive churns and the hard
drive light is on constantly for between 5 to 10 minutes until it finally
settles down....

I ran perfmon.msc and the Average Disk Quota is going through the roof....
as is the memory. Yet it has 20 Gb free space on a 30 G HDD. I ghosted over
to another hard drive and the same problem......

I've cleaned up.... uninstalled Norton 2004 and reinstalled it and the same
thing....

Time for a clean re-install?

Gordon

 

[Guest]

Please try these:

Clean Windows Startup and hidden Startup:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindowsstartup.htm

Clean Temporary Internet Files, Cookies and other temporary files:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindowstempfiles.htm

Check for errors and defragment hard drive:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindowsharddrive.htm

Spyware/Virus Removal and Prevention:
http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm
(Links to online virus scans on the same page)

Additionally, Indexing and System Restore may be responsible of the problem.

You also could check Event Viewer (Start - > Settings -> Control Panel - >
Administrative Tools - > Event Viewer) for possible errors/events.

Hope this helps!

 

[Guest]

Could be

 

[Laura A. Robinson]

circa Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:26:53 -0700, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, Gordon J. Rattray
([email protected]) said,

Hi there,

With Windows XP Pro, it starts up and the hard drive churns and the hard
drive light is on constantly for between 5 to 10 minutes until it finally
settles down....

I ran perfmon.msc and the Average Disk Quota is going through the roof....
as is the memory. Yet it has 20 Gb free space on a 30 G HDD. I ghosted over
to another hard drive and the same problem......

I've cleaned up.... uninstalled Norton 2004 and reinstalled it and the same
thing....

Time for a clean re-install?

Gordon

Hit sysinternals.com and download process viewer and take a look at
what's eating up the machine.

Laura

 

[Guest]

Check for spyware, these two are good options for spyware removal
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot - Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
also Doug Knox has many good solutions on his site
http://www.dougknox.com/
Select Win XP utilities then Startup Programs Tracker, this will tell you
what programs are running at startup.
Hope this helps...

Kris

Kris

 

[Kelly]

Hi Gordon,

Run the Task Manager, go to View/Select Columns, and turn on the following
columns: "I/O Read Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes." This will give you details
as to which process is accessing the disk.

Although many processes will be accessing the disk, look for one with a high
total or a fast rate of increase, especially when you hear the drive being
accessed.

How to Locate and Correct Disk Space Problems on NTFS Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315688

Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-gb;316505&ln=en-gb

Hard Disk Performance Is Slower Than You Expect
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308219

 

[Laura A. Robinson]

Hit sysinternals.com and download process viewer and take a look at
what's eating up the machine.

By the way, the advantage of using this rather than Task Manager or Perfmon is
that it presents all of the linked operations that make up the process in
question in real time, as well as handles that they spawn, which makes it much
easier to watch what's going on on your machine. It's definitely worth taking a
look.

Thanks,

Laura

 

[S.Sengupta]

Chkdsk and defrag your system.Scan your system with latest virus
definitioned antivius/adaware/spybot,search and destroy.
Also see:-http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[=?iso-8859-15?Q?Frisbee=AE?=]

By the way, the advantage of using this rather than Task Manager or
Perfmon is that it presents all of the linked operations that make up
the process in question in real time, as well as handles that they
spawn, which makes it much easier to watch what's going on on your
machine. It's definitely worth taking a look.

I love it when you talk dirty.

--
Fris "She said spawn" bee®, MCNGP #13

The MCNGP Team - We're here to help!
http://www.mcngp.com

Certaholics
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[=meanoldman=]

Mmmmmm Me too.

How's it going Laura?

I love it when you talk dirty.

--
Fris "She said spawn" bee®, MCNGP #13

The MCNGP Team - We're here to help!
http://www.mcngp.com

Certaholics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/certaholics

 

[Kristi]

Hi there,

With Windows XP Pro, it starts up and the hard drive churns and the hard
drive light is on constantly for between 5 to 10 minutes until it finally
settles down....

I ran perfmon.msc and the Average Disk Quota is going through the roof....
as is the memory. Yet it has 20 Gb free space on a 30 G HDD. I ghosted over
to another hard drive and the same problem......

I've cleaned up.... uninstalled Norton 2004 and reinstalled it and the same
thing....

Time for a clean re-install?

Gordon

I trust you have defragged and ALSO done a directory defrag.
hth
(massive crosspost eliminated)
Kristi

 

[Laura A. Robinson]

circa Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:36:45 -0400, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, =?iso-8859-15?Q?Frisbee=AE?=
([email protected]) said,

I love it when you talk dirty.

Oh, he11, I'm just getting started.

 

[Laura A. Robinson]

circa Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:42:24 -0400, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, =meanoldman= ([email protected]) said,

Mmmmmm Me too.

Hey, you're still surviving on the "raisins" behind the couch?

How's it going Laura?

Depends what day of the week you ask me. I'm in NYC now, working for,
erm, a large company with a recognizable name.

Corporate America can be pretty stupid.

But NY is a bazillion times better than Pennsyltucky.

Laura

 

[Jeff]

Hi Laura,

I escaped PA back in 95, moved to Tokyo, more populated
then PA.

Jeff

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Frisbee=AE?=]

But NY is a bazillion times better than Pennsyltucky.

Hey... I'm from Pennsyltucky.

I'll bet you'd like my little hometown: Bloomsburg.

Ah, ring bologna, birch beer, teaberry ice cream, Philly style hoagies and
cheese steaks.

--
Fris "Now all I got is grits" bee®, MCNGP #13

The MCNGP Team - We're here to help!
http://www.mcngp.com

Certaholics
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[Neil]

Fris "Now all I got is grits" bee©, MCNGP #13

I do not believe that grits are actually food...

 

[Paul Lynch]

Hit sysinternals.com and download process viewer and take a look at
what's eating up the machine.

Laura

You might also want to take a look at Autoruns (also from
Sysinternals) to find out exactly which processes are spinning up when
you boot your machine :

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml


Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

 

[Laura A. Robinson]

Hey... I'm from Pennsyltucky.

Sorry, man, that's a bummer.

I'll bet you'd like my little hometown: Bloomsburg.

Gawd, it's like my two worst nightmares rolled together...

Ah, ring bologna, birch beer, teaberry ice cream, Philly style hoagies and
cheese steaks.

At least you didn't wax reminiscent about scrapple.

Laura

 

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Frisbee=AE?=]

Sorry, man, that's a bummer.

Gawd, it's like my two worst nightmares rolled together...


At least you didn't wax reminiscent about scrapple.

I had one horrible experience that involved scrapple. To this day, I
literally shudder when even the word is mentioned.

--
Fris "gag reflex" bee®, MCNGP #13

The MCNGP Team - We're here to help!
http://www.mcngp.com

Certaholics
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[kpg]

I had one horrible experience that involved scrapple. To this day, I
literally shudder when even the word is mentioned.

That's what Yankees say about grits.