you've probably go windows search autoindexing enabled
2009/6/25 Gary Weaver <garww@...>
> Sounds like Windows housekeeping. Often file indexing, but there are host
> of critical useless services.
>
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> On 6/26/2009 at 9:40 AM Richard Smallfield wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem.
> >
> >Contrary to logic, my computer slows down when I have an external 750GB
> >archived images hard drive switched on. (The disc also has a scratch
> >partition for Photoshop. I use a laptop - but otherwise, funds permitting,
> >would have a RAID scratch array.)
> >
> >The thing is, when I switch on this external drive, the internal hard
> >drive spins like mad for ages - half an hour? Ages, anyway. And the
> >computer becomes impossibly slow.
> >
> >I thought it was McAfee doing a scan this morning (which it was doing), so
> >I turned off the scan, but still the hard drive was going nuts for half an
> >hour or so.
> >
> >So, power management issues aside, I leave my four external hard drives
> >turned off unless I need them for something.
> >
> >Can anyone suggest a reason why this might be happening?
> >
> >thanks,
> >Richard
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