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constant hard drive activity: Win XP

bugsysiegel

bugsysiegel

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Hi all,

I have an issue with Windows XP constantly hitting my primary hard drive. It'll cause activity for about half a second, just long enough for the IDE light to come on and to hear the heads move, then stop. It repeats this cycle pretty much in a constant cycle. I've tried going through MSCONFIG and disabling all non-essential services, also tried stopping all non-essential services in the Task Manager, problem still happens. I've installed this version of XP before on this machine with no issues, but I recently upgraded the motherboard and CPU and did a fresh install of the OS, and that's when it got funky.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Bugsy
 
Hey i dont know if this is the answer...

But i would surely install WinXP over again if u have changed the motherboard(unless u have the same Mobo). there are just to many things that might be different.

that might be it...but not sure...
 
Stop "File indexing service"

uninstall Norton Systemworks if you have it...buggy thing, spots the files so it can use it later for it's Speed Disk program..

hope it helps.
 
Does the task manager show which, if any, process is talking up memory or CPU, you could click at the top to sort the CPU or memory utilization and see if any specific process(es) are hogging your system ?
 
In task manager under the process list, enable the columns for IO Read and IO Write activity. Then you can monitor in realtime which processes are writing to the disk.

-Bill
 
Is this really a problem? I mean, is it causing you to lose data (or sleep)?

Seems to me that if it's not causing any harm, just chalk it up to "that's the way XP works."

(There have already been several threads on this topic, with just that conclusion.)
 


<< Is this really a problem? I mean, is it causing you to lose data (or sleep)?

Seems to me that if it's not causing any harm, just chalk it up to "that's the way XP works."

(There have already been several threads on this topic, with just that conclusion.) >>




Chalking it up to XP is not an option, the hard drive can't run constantly forever, it'll burn up even faster than it normally would!

Task monitor shows only "system idle processes" taking up cpu time.
 
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