hard disk activity on XP

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Bring back to place of purchase and ask for a repair
and/or replacement...Good luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>Windows XP Home on Fujitsu Amilo D laptop newly bought.
>The hard disk is noisy on this machine and is almost
>constantly active. I have disabled services such as
>monitoring and so forth, and the indexing service. I
can't
>disable event logging. Every couple of seconds the hard
>disk light comes on and it goes click-click click-click,
>then waits for two seconds and does it again. It is
>driving me up the pole. What is causing this activity
when
>the machine is doing nothing (nothing useful that is),
and
>how can I stop it?
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