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CDR writing failed, now getting constant disk activity
We have a machine here with numerous OSes installed
for software testing, one of those being Windows XP Home. I decided to transfer some files to CDR (Philips PCRW804 drive) and dragged and dropped a fair number onto the CDR icon. The progress in transferring to the staging area was relatively slow, and then suddenly the PC turned itself off. Now when I boot back into that same version of Windows XP (no other Windows OS or non-Windows OS is affected) as soon as I actually log on (and not before), and log in as any user, I get continual disk activity slowing the computer down to a crawl. (It can take several minutes to delete a file, for example). I suspect that this is a hang over from the attempt to stage the files for CD writing. Booting into the other OSes has allowed me to examine the disk. I've removed all the temp files from WINDOWS/temp, my user space, and anything else that looked like it could have been related to the staging of files. I've even tried turning system restore on and off (maybe not a wise move with hindsight). Nothing seems to be working. What I did notice is that there is a rather large pagefile.sys (1.5GB) on the disk partition which was providing the staging area. Also sometimes I can get the computer to become responsive again for about a minute at a stretch by ejecting the CD tray (even though it is empty). This is not reliable, and is only a temporary fix. I could reinstall, but I don't want to have to go that far, and reinstall all the tools, etc., not least because it has required some delicate balancing to get about 15 operating systems on one PC. Any hints would be most grateful. |
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