Problem with XP Home SP2 Drive Churning

[Brian]

I'm having a problem where if I'm working on the computer, all of a
sudden it starts to slag and slow and I look and the hard drive is
churning away and the computer will not type anymore until the drive
stops churning. This can happen in a simple word processor.

I have a Pent 4 3/4 gh with 2 gig RAM so plenty of system.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? ALso, it doesn't happen
everyday. Somedays it doesn't do it?

Brian

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Run the defrag system tool. It's probably doing background defrag duties.

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"Brian" > wrote in message
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> I'm having a problem where if I'm working on the computer, all of a
> sudden it starts to slag and slow and I look and the hard drive is
> churning away and the computer will not type anymore until the drive
> stops churning. This can happen in a simple word processor.
>
> I have a Pent 4 3/4 gh with 2 gig RAM so plenty of system.
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this? ALso, it doesn't happen
> everyday. Somedays it doesn't do it?
>
> Brian