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What Keeps Hogging My Pc's Hard Disk?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marvo" data-source="post: 299853" data-attributes="member: 20838"><p>If you think the drive is heading South check the SMART logs for disk I/O or read/write failures. Not sure about Vista but in XP they're at Control Panel&gt;Administrative Tools&gt;Computer Management. Then in the left hand menu under Event Viewer&gt;System.</p><p></p><p>It's more likely to be a background service than a hardware problem but anything is possible. Try disabling drive indexing, this has a nasty habit of using large resources at the most inconvenient time.</p><p></p><p>Finally try booting into safe mode, that way you could rule out your hardware theory. Oh and full malware and virus scan preferrably from a live disk such as Hirens Boot Disk or similar.</p><p></p><p>Good Luck </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marvo, post: 299853, member: 20838"] If you think the drive is heading South check the SMART logs for disk I/O or read/write failures. Not sure about Vista but in XP they're at Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management. Then in the left hand menu under Event Viewer>System. It's more likely to be a background service than a hardware problem but anything is possible. Try disabling drive indexing, this has a nasty habit of using large resources at the most inconvenient time. Finally try booting into safe mode, that way you could rule out your hardware theory. Oh and full malware and virus scan preferrably from a live disk such as Hirens Boot Disk or similar. Good Luck [/QUOTE]
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