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Hard Drive Keeps Spinning?

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fighterpilot

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I have a WD Caviar 80GB SATA Hard Drive connected to my ABIT NF7-S motherboard. I am running Windows XP SP2.

Many times lately, whenever I go to open internet explorer, windows explorer, or just opening a folder the hard drive spins/reads (HD light on) constantly. I have run McAfee virus scan (up to date), Trend Micro Housecall online virus scan, Ad Aware, and Spybot showing no issues there. I also did a chkdsk and everything checks out ok.

The application that causes the HD to spin usually hangs, while I can access other applications.

What might this problem be? I plan on reformatting soon, but would like to diagnose the issue before I do so to make sure it isn't a hard drive problem.

Thanks for any assistance everyone can offer.
 
I should have mentioned too that I have 2x512MB of DDR400, AthlonXP 2600+, GeForce Ti4200. And I have defragmented multiple times using both Windows defrag but I tend to use PerfectDisk. I do have my system paging file set to 1.5GB (set by Windows) and have tried setting it myself to no avail.

It gets annoying when I go to open a video file and the hard drive just spins incessently taking forever just to load a 20MB file.

Oh well, I guess I will be reformatting this weekend and see how things go.
 
Hmm
My thought is there might be some errors that chkdsk didn't pick up
What flag did you use for chkdsk? /f?
If you have time you might like a surface scan to find bad sectors. (it should be chkdsk c: /r to check bad sectors) Mainly they are the cause for this kind of behaviour
 
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
Hmm
My thought is there might be some errors that chkdsk didn't pick up
What flag did you use for chkdsk? /f?
If you have time you might like a surface scan to find bad sectors. (it should be chkdsk c: /r to check bad sectors) Mainly they are the cause for this kind of behaviour
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Thanks. Yes, I did a chkdsk /f and found nothing. I will do a chkdsk /r tonight when I leave for bed to see if it picks anything up.

 
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