"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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> 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.
My Avast don't present me with any of the symptoms you describe and I
definitely don't think it is the culprit.
Curious probably has the right idea.
Harry.
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> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
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