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Fritz
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:16 am    Post subject: hard drive problem Reply with quote
My hard drive keeps coming on for no apparent reason. It runs five or ten
minutes, stops, and then starts again fifteen or twenty minutes later. It
doesnt actually seem to do anything. It just sits there and grinds away. Do
you have any idea why it might be doing this and what I could do about it?
This is a new Acer PC with an 80 gigabyte hard drive running windows xp
service pack 2. I'm not actually at the computer when it does this. I just
have the computer turned on. Its not the internet because it does this
whether I'm on line or not. It doesnt generate much CPU usage. Somewhere
between 2% and 4%. Thanks.
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Eric Bursley [MVP]
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:16 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive problem Reply with quote
Sometimes anti-virus software performs a scan, which would show this kind of
activity.

Eric Bursley
eric at bursley dot net
Microsoft MVP
RHCE, MCSE, BCFP, EEIE-CS, ESCE-CS
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My hard drive keeps coming on for no apparent reason. It runs five or ten
minutes, stops, and then starts again fifteen or twenty minutes later. It
doesnt actually seem to do anything. It just sits there and grinds away.
Do you have any idea why it might be doing this and what I could do about
it? This is a new Acer PC with an 80 gigabyte hard drive running windows
xp service pack 2. I'm not actually at the computer when it does this. I
just have the computer turned on. Its not the internet because it does
this whether I'm on line or not. It doesnt generate much CPU usage.
Somewhere between 2% and 4%. Thanks.
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