Disk thrashing

[IanF]

My nearly new system has a very quiet Maxtor 120GByte hard drive which has
suddenly become very noisy on boot-up.

Windows installs OK, to the stage at which the desktop has finished and all
tasks are shown in the system tray. THEN the disk gets very noisy and I
have no idea what the system is doing to make this noise. In addition
Windows is taking approx. thirty seconds to close down; the systems sits for
most of this period with no apparent disk activity going on.

Can anyone please point me towards a solution??

System:

Windows XP Home
CPU Intel 2.66GHz Pentium 4, 512MBytes RAM on a Platinix 2PE/800
Mainboard
Maxtor 120Gbyte 7200 hard drive.

Thanks,

IanF

 

[cimex]

When this happens, look in the Task Manager (processes) to see what is using
the most CPU (other than System Idle Process, which should be high or very
high %).

 

[IanF]

Thanks, I did try that but couldn't see anything that stood out as using a
lot of resource. I'll give it another go tho'.