Hard Drive working overtime

[Guest]

Hi

I'm running xp home on a P4 with 512meg ram and I'm finding that even when
i'm not doing anything on the pc, or its completely unattended, the hard
drive is working overtime.

Last nite my pc crashed I believe due to a lack of resources and then went
into a cycle of trying to reboot, getting to the windows screen and then
restarting again. I thought this may be due to overheating but no evidence of
that, except that after I left it shut down for about 5 mins, it seemed fine
again. I've cleaned out any dust and ensured nothing is preventing the fan
from working.

Could the two be related?

Can you tell me please what could be causing this and if it can be rectified?

 

[Malke]

Hi

I'm running xp home on a P4 with 512meg ram and I'm finding that even
when i'm not doing anything on the pc, or its completely unattended,
the hard drive is working overtime.

Last nite my pc crashed I believe due to a lack of resources and then
went into a cycle of trying to reboot, getting to the windows screen
and then restarting again. I thought this may be due to overheating
but no evidence of that, except that after I left it shut down for
about 5 mins, it seemed fine
again. I've cleaned out any dust and ensured nothing is preventing
the fan from working.

Could the two be related?

Can you tell me please what could be causing this and if it can be
rectified?

What is the virus/malware status of the computer? Make sure it is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke

 

[R. McCarty]

To view real time disk I/O, download Filemon from SysInternals.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
Along with Malware infestations, the Windows Indexing utility is
sometimes responsible for unaccounted disk activity.

 

[xy2z]

Hi

I'm running xp home on a P4 with 512meg ram and I'm finding that even
when
i'm not doing anything on the pc, or its completely unattended, the
hard
drive is working overtime.

Last nite my pc crashed I believe due to a lack of resources and then
went
into a cycle of trying to reboot, getting to the windows screen and
then
restarting again. I thought this may be due to overheating but no
evidence of
that, except that after I left it shut down for about 5 mins, it seemed
fine
again. I've cleaned out any dust and ensured nothing is preventing the
fan
from working.

Could the two be related?

Can you tell me please what could be causing this and if it can be
rectified?

Hello chelle,

Wht is the capacity of the HDD? was it running out of space? did you
run a chkdsk? How long since you ran disk cleanup and defragmented? Is
ur system clean of spyware and viruses?
heres a link
http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/HDDMaint_Chkdsk.htm