Wacky Hard Drive?

[Jynx980]

Somthing s going on with my HD. The led keeps blinking and I can hear the disk churning even though I am not doing anything. I am down to systray and explorer for open programs and it keeps on going. Now it stopped... It didnt do this before and the only thing that has changed is that I put in a new cd-rw. My power scheme is Home/Office but that probably has nothing to do with it. The HD is an IBM 60GB.

 

[Paulson]

Is it making any really weird noises?

I think you should run IBM's drive fitness tests just to be on the safe side...

I don't know where to download them at, but I'm sure you can search on google or something to find them, if you don't already have them...

 

[WyteWatt]

Here goes another

 

[sharkeeper]

My favorite wacky wheels character was razer!

Cheers!

 

[AluminumStudios]

IBM GXP line of hard drives are blowing left and right. There are many threads here from people who've had them fail. I would definitly back everything up and run the drive fitness software.

There is a chance that it's not an impending failure (although I have no faith in IBM at all anymore).

Are you running Windows 9x/me or 2000/XP? If you are running 2000/XP you can open task manager while the lights on and see if any processes are using CPU time. Do you have task scheduler running or a virus scanner that is scheduled to do updates or scans?

 

[mikable]

The task manager doesn't show everything, lots of programs can hide from it. Use a utility that can find all proccess that are running. Any of them could be accessing your disk. What's your Virtual Memory set at? Lots of people set it to a specific value to cut down on disk access, mines 1Gig.

 

[AluminumStudios]

The Applications tab of task manager under Windows NT/2K/XP doesn't show everything, but the processes tab should show all processes in memory. So if an app is running there is no reason for it to not show up there.