I believe he meant that the drive is no longer acting sick, now that Avast
is history.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:22:58 -0700, Curious wrote:
Quote:
> Are you sure you don't still have to return the drive? AFAIK WD cross ships
> RMA drives to get the new drive to you faster but also requires a credit
> card number so they can bill you for the new drive if you do not return the
> RMA'd drive with a certain time frame.
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uWHAucE9JHA.288@xxxxxx Quote:
>> FOOD FOR THOUGHT
>>
>> I was talking to Western Digital today and they gave me an RMA to return a
>> "defective" 1 gig hard drive that sounded like a garbage truck for the
>> past 4-5 days. I could hear the drive in the next room while watching
>> television. I'm glad to say I don't have to return the drive.
>>
>> Today I downloaded the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials for testing
>> purposes. I uninstalled Avast and installed MSE. After a reboot (I always
>> do this after an install) the hard drive was quiet! The drive had
>> previously sounded like the heads were slamming into the stops. What a
>> noise. I also checked my processes in Task Manager and found that one
>> Avast process had over 22 **BILLION** read accesses within 1/2 hour after
>> booting up.
>>
>> Anyway, all now seems well. I guess it was an Avast update that started my
>> main hard drive going spastic.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>
>>
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