disk access during boot

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gabriel

Lately when I boot my PC it accesses the hard drive at least 3 min at
full blast. During this time it is impossible to do something with the
computer except to wait. There is practically no processor activity.

I cleaned my PC of obsolete files, cleaned the registry of obsolete
entries, etc..
I used a defragment tool, but all to no avail.

My PC runs XP Professional SP2.
Processor: AMD 1500+ (yes, I know: rather oldà
Memory: 512MB of RAM

My question is: is there a tool with which you can see which proces
accesses the hard drive?
 
What are your anti-virus arrangements?

What Error / Warning reports ( if any ) appear in the System log in
Event Viewer when you last booted the machine?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description
are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Gabriel, do you have Automatic Updates turned on? It could be that they
needed a
restart and are continuing the installation processes.
Do you have Indexing turned on? I would also check the Page file. Rt
click My
Computer>select Properties>Advanced>Performance-Settings>Advanced>
Virtual Memory-Change. Select no page file, Set and Ok. Restart and reverse
the procedure.
Let XP manage it.
 
Thank you very much for the quick response and good advice.

In the meantime I think I have found the culprit: namely a scheduled
task for defragmenting my harddisk. Apparently there was something wrong
and the task was constantly "analyzing" my harddisk
 
Gabriel, glad you found the problem.
gabriel said:
Thank you very much for the quick response and good advice.

In the meantime I think I have found the culprit: namely a scheduled task
for defragmenting my harddisk. Apparently there was something wrong and
the task was constantly "analyzing" my harddisk
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