What's going on with my hard disk ?

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joker197cinque

Please point me in the right direction as I can't figure out what my
Win XP SP2 is doing!

When I start my Win XP SP2 laptop, I wait for services to be
completely started (as always). After that I can hear HD run like
swapping.

Then I open task manager and can see:

1) CPU is 0% ..... 2%
2) Allocated memory is 600MB (physical RAM is 1GB)

Laptop is apparently doing nothing.

How can I do to debug this situation please?

Any help much appreciated.

Best regards.
 
Have you tried this approach?
How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" state
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353/en-us

Also look for Error Reports in the System log in Event Viewer. This will
be accessible in safe mode.

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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