[JMT]

Lately, my hard drive will start spinning periodically. When it's done doing it's thing (after a few seconds) then my floppy drive starts crunching like it's looking for something. I checked to see if there was anything in "Startup" that would cause this, I also checked my settings on NAV to see if it's supposed to look in the A drive, but found nothing that would indicate that NAV is doing anything out of the ordinary. It seems to occur every hour or so.

Any suggestions?

 

[CaptBubba]

I know NAV will scan any floppy on boot and access to make sure no viri get in, but I doubt that is the cause.

More likly is an indexing "service" of some type. If you are running win XP you need to turn off the indexing service or just open up each drive's properties and don't allow the drives to be indexed. If you are running an older version of Windows, press ctrl-alt-del and see if you have a process running called "findfast", close it and see if it helps, if it does you can type "msconfig" into the run box, go to startup and uncheck findfast. That way it no longer loads at boot.

 

[dokebi]

What operating system are you using?

 

[JMT]

Win98

 

[TravelLite]

JMT, DiskAction is a small, simple program which logs drive reads and writes under Windows 9x/Me. Registration is required to download PC Magazine programs, but it's free and perfunctory.

What's Using Your Hard Drive?

DiskAction: Download

TravelLite

 

[lini]

JMT: Are you using Microsoft Office, maybe? It has one of the aforementioned indexing services. And there should be another logging tool available for free on www.sysinternals.com, called Filemon I think, which also works for Win98...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[JMT]

Thanks all, I'll check into all of this (understanding that my feeble mind is not all that computer savvy).

joelongwood suggested...."get a MAC."

Lini: Yes I am, how do I access it?

 

[MacDEF]

Quote:

Originally posted by JMT joelongwood suggested...."get a MAC."

LOL, good one, joelongwood

 

[Pepsione1]

Could very well be a virus too, I have worked on many infected computers with the same symptom. What else is it doing that's out of the ordinary? Do you keep your NAV updated?

 

[JMT]

Quote:

Could very well be a virus too, I have worked on many infected computers with the same symptom. What else is it doing that's out of the ordinary?

Nothing else, just that.....so far. Quote:

Do you keep your NAV updated?

Well, Live Update seems to run every day. I don't know if that is indicative of anything, but should it run every day?

 

[dokebi]

imo, no. Does all these symptoms still occur if you totally disable the norton software?

 

[JMT]

Interesting, I just discovered the my LiveUpdate in NAV cannot connect, it says there's an error in my "dial-up" connection. However, I have DSL and it never had a problem before.

 

[joelongwood]

 

[JMT]

Maybe joelongwood is right. I wonder if there is any place that has maybe 9 or 10 used MACs just sitting around doing nothing?