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> What I mean by that is the damn hard drive is constantly
> running now. The system runs like an old Pentium 75, not
> an AthlonXP 2400+.
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> System:
> AthlonXP 2400+
> 512M RAM
> 80 GB Western Digital as master on primary IDE port (C:)
> 60 GB Maxtor as master on RAID port (D:)
> DVD burners as primary and secondary drives on second IDE port (E: F:)
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> The problem started after this: I was burning a copy of
> Midnight Run onto DVD, and my system rebooted for no
> apparent reason. Ever since then, the hard drive has been
> constantly running.
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> My thoughts are that the system is thrashing heavily, so I
> set virtual memory to 0 and rebooted. This should have
> gotten rid of the corrupted paging file. I defragged my C:
> and D: drives. Now I just need to set up virtual memory
> for 512MB. This equals main memory size, which is
> recommended on systems with 512MB of memory or more.
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> Time to see if this cures my system.
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> BTW, this has happened once before, and after a period of
> time my system went back to normal and the hard drive
> access stopped - again, for no apparent reason. I hate
> these problems that do not have obvious causes.
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