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Hi there, I am not sure if this is a soft or hardware problem.
Sometimes at boot up, XP Pro SP2, just “waits� at XP’s marching ants splash
screen, for some activity on the drive to end. Sometimes this action starts
out of the blue when the computer is on and I can not do anything at all
until the commotion on the drive is over. I did read on the internet about
exactly similar incidents but the simplistic answers point to a faulty hard
drive, since this activity on the drive is accompanied by a soft and regular
three parts, clicking/grinding/ swishing/ hissing kind of noise. Very
different from defragmenting, scanning the drive or a normal hard drive
access. Physically there is nothing wrong with drive whatsoever, I have
tested it and tested it some more, with software from the manufacturer and
all is well, also when the noise is not there it functions faultlessly.
It is a software problem, I would say, but I can not see what is running in
the background because I can not get to anything that would let me check the
background, when is happens. There is certainly no viruses, spyware or
pirated software on it. In a moment of inspiration I decided to Run-> “sfc
/scannow� and it seems to reduce this occurs greatly.
Any thoughts of that may be wrong?
George
Hi there, I am not sure if this is a soft or hardware problem.
Sometimes at boot up, XP Pro SP2, just “waits� at XP’s marching ants splash
screen, for some activity on the drive to end. Sometimes this action starts
out of the blue when the computer is on and I can not do anything at all
until the commotion on the drive is over. I did read on the internet about
exactly similar incidents but the simplistic answers point to a faulty hard
drive, since this activity on the drive is accompanied by a soft and regular
three parts, clicking/grinding/ swishing/ hissing kind of noise. Very
different from defragmenting, scanning the drive or a normal hard drive
access. Physically there is nothing wrong with drive whatsoever, I have
tested it and tested it some more, with software from the manufacturer and
all is well, also when the noise is not there it functions faultlessly.
It is a software problem, I would say, but I can not see what is running in
the background because I can not get to anything that would let me check the
background, when is happens. There is certainly no viruses, spyware or
pirated software on it. In a moment of inspiration I decided to Run-> “sfc
/scannow� and it seems to reduce this occurs greatly.
Any thoughts of that may be wrong?
George
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