-=PCTechTalk=- Re: email=hard drive spin
- From: Davisunit <davist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:03:19 -0400
Yes, I ran Scandisk/thorough
Terry
~OoO~ wrote:
>Has a scandisk been done on the drive to make sure it doesn't have any bad
>sectors?
>
>---Troth
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:21 AM
>To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- email=hard drive spin
>
>A friend has a strange problem. He has Win98se/PI-166 and lots of hard
>drive space.
>After setting up OE for his email, and receiving a week or 2 worth, whenever
>he opened OE, within 30 seconds, the hard drive would spin so much, he could
>not do anything, and had to resort to exiting OE. Once the program was
>shutdown, the hard drive returned to normal. Thinking this was a possible
>virus, etc., I did the following:
>Updated AVG and did a complete scan
>Used the online Panda scan
>Installed Adaware + Spybot and did system scans Ran the online Trojanscan
>Did a throrough Scandisk Ran Defrag The problem continued, so formatted hard
>drive and did a fresh install of Win98se.
>Within a week, the problem reappeared..
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Terry
>
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