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Why does my disc suddenly start scanning like crazy
Hi all,
This is driving me crazy - well the noise is....
Windows 7 Ultimate eval copy build 7100, dloaded from MS site 6 weeks ago.
Installed fine.
All was ok until last week
I could not load anything when I switched on, the hard disc light was flashing but had a black monitor, tried rebooting, always the same, tried rebooting in safe mode, loaded lots of files then stopped. Finally I rebooted and win7 loaded.
Then I noticed that suddenly my hard disc started spinning like crazy for 5 minutes at a time, slowing down to normal speed for a while and its been like that ever since. I had a similar problem on my Vista setup and one of the HiJackThis forums talked me through getting rid of the Trojan, but the tools they recommend using do not work on Win7.
Other symptoms are sometimes slow response time typing, or slow launch of an application - almost as if my keystrokes are being tracked. Also one of the other strange things is if I load Explorer, the folder bar at the top has a crawling green progress bar as if it is loading the contents of the folder - I can see the contents but cannot do anything until the green bar finishes. Another problem is that hijackthis shows the hosts localhost is set to ::1 Localhost and yet when I look in windows/system hosts looks fine...
weird
I suspected a Trojan/Virus but I have tried Trojan Remover, Stopzilla Scotty and I use Nod32 AV and nothing is showing as a problem. Malwarebyte antimalware is taking ages to run but at 24260 Objects scanned has picked nothing up.
I am wondering if in fact it isnt a virus or trojan but win7 file indexing going a little crazy. I seem to recall in Vista switching indexing off....
Anyone help please????
thanks
george