Hi all,
Ive had this problem before and had to amend it with factory restore and im not doing it this time.....
Anyway...
The Hard Drive seems to be reading 'all over the place' when i start windows as it is slow and once Windows has started and Bit Defender has loaded up and my network connection the Hard-Drive light flashes intermittentley for about 60 seconds after its 'Ready-to-Go' the light stays on for half a second and off for half a second repeatedly for a minute and sometimes after Ive accessed the drive (used some programs)
Another thing that gives the game away is that when it is actually starting up then XP welcome sound breaks up as though the drive is trying to access other parts of itself whilst playing back the sound.... AND the mouse pointer keeps sticking, I have tried Checking drive with SpySweeper 5, ive erased all tracks with tracks eraser pro and used Diskeeper v10 to dafregment (even though it says that its ok) and when i did it took hours (it used to take 5 mins cos drive was always 'clean') I used the FAAST defrag on it also and it took hours and made no difference....
I tried system restore in XP but the 3 points I tried they all failed and i noticed when Diskeeper 10 was defragmenting most of the stuff it was moving seemed to be system restore items in the 'System Volume Information/_restore' folder.... What I had been upto at the time of this happening was i was downloading Live Aid 85 for my girlfriend which took 2 days during which time i had been using the laptop on internet, burning films (just normal use really) and after the download finished (5Gb) this happened ive now deleted ALL large files on the laptop and it only has Apps on it then Defrag'd but still the same???
I use Bit Defender v10 Internet Security AND SpySweeper but never both at the same time, never had to, I have noticed since defrag last night and/or using Spysweeper to try and locate Malware that the Spyware module on Bit Defender has become completley disabled (greyed out) and cant be turned on (The virus/firewall is ok though)
PLEASE , PLEASE HELP,
Iam Windows savvy and its usually me thats fixing PCs but this one has got me stumped
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE
Ive had this problem before and had to amend it with factory restore and im not doing it this time.....
Anyway...
The Hard Drive seems to be reading 'all over the place' when i start windows as it is slow and once Windows has started and Bit Defender has loaded up and my network connection the Hard-Drive light flashes intermittentley for about 60 seconds after its 'Ready-to-Go' the light stays on for half a second and off for half a second repeatedly for a minute and sometimes after Ive accessed the drive (used some programs)
Another thing that gives the game away is that when it is actually starting up then XP welcome sound breaks up as though the drive is trying to access other parts of itself whilst playing back the sound.... AND the mouse pointer keeps sticking, I have tried Checking drive with SpySweeper 5, ive erased all tracks with tracks eraser pro and used Diskeeper v10 to dafregment (even though it says that its ok) and when i did it took hours (it used to take 5 mins cos drive was always 'clean') I used the FAAST defrag on it also and it took hours and made no difference....
I tried system restore in XP but the 3 points I tried they all failed and i noticed when Diskeeper 10 was defragmenting most of the stuff it was moving seemed to be system restore items in the 'System Volume Information/_restore' folder.... What I had been upto at the time of this happening was i was downloading Live Aid 85 for my girlfriend which took 2 days during which time i had been using the laptop on internet, burning films (just normal use really) and after the download finished (5Gb) this happened ive now deleted ALL large files on the laptop and it only has Apps on it then Defrag'd but still the same???
I use Bit Defender v10 Internet Security AND SpySweeper but never both at the same time, never had to, I have noticed since defrag last night and/or using Spysweeper to try and locate Malware that the Spyware module on Bit Defender has become completley disabled (greyed out) and cant be turned on (The virus/firewall is ok though)
PLEASE , PLEASE HELP,
Iam Windows savvy and its usually me thats fixing PCs but this one has got me stumped
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE