Hard Drive noise only on non-Administrator accounts!?

[andyfano]

I have been having a problem with hard drive noise only for
non-administrator accounts on a Windows XP Professional machine.

I have changed hard drives and the problem persists.
When I grant the other accounts administrator priviledges the problem
goes away.

Any ideas?

Please copy (e-mail address removed) on any responses as I do not read these
groups often.

Thanks for any help,

Andy Fano

 

[NotMe]

Strange, what type of policies do you set for Non Admins that requires XP to
check every click to see if policy is being followed?

 

[andyfano]

I haven't set any kind of policies whatsoever.
The hard drive noise is not normal drive activity indicating disc
access or writing - it is a worrisome grinding noise.

Thanks,

-Andy Fano

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If you are getting a "grinding" sound, this is a "hardware" issue and could
be your hard drive is going to fail (aka "crash".) The reason that it may
only occur on "non-Administrator" account is the fact that that is where the
those accounts have their files stored. Backup the drvier soon!

 

[andyfano]

I thought so too, so I changed drives, and it still happens. When I
change the status of the account to be administrator it stops
happening.

Thanks,

-Andy Fano

 

[Z]

I thought so too, so I changed drives, and it still happens. When I
change the status of the account to be administrator it stops
happening.

Have you looked to try to find out what's running that doing the IO?

Filemon from sysinternals could help locate the process/program.

 

[andyfano]

I'm not sure that anyone but me cares, but I thought I'd mention the
issue was resolved.

I added a Seagate Hard drive and at the same time installed a backup
utility "Bounce Back express" that came with the hard drive.

When I uninstalled the backup utility the hard drive noise went away.

-Andy Fano

 

[NotMe]

I am sure people appreciate the information.
Bounce Back Express goes in the trash...LOL