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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 5
OS: XP
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Intermittent hard drive access delays
Hi,
My hard drive works fine. No 'bad sectors', recently defragged without any problems, no data lost. However, from time to time when I try to do something (eg, open a word document, access windows explorer, start media player - different each time) the hard drive starts audibly 'grinding', and while the computer does eventually do what I ask it to, it can take 1-2 minutes to perform the task. In the interim, everything else works fine - IE, MSN, whatever. Once this problem comes along then it happens for some time. I can also reset the computer and it's fine again. Can anyone please tell me why this is happening and what I can do about it? The computer is about 6 months old. I'm running XP SP2 and Nod 32. My HDD is at about 25% utilisation. Thanks for your help, A. |
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