 Automatoc Appearance Of Second Swap File, Swap file appears on d: drive during boot which takes around 5 minutes |
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 Aug 2 2008, 10:13 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Michigan Member No.: 178,104  |
HP computer Core Duo I meg of ram XP Media Center Service Pack 2 two partitions same disk C: == Boot D: hardware recovery fat32 from factory. No shortage of space on C 100+GB free Avast (scanned clean) Spybot (scanned Clean) Spywareblaster spywareGuard Adware (scan found MRU Object) SuperAntiSypware (scanned Clean) Heidi Eraser program was added to machine prior day Removed no effect on problem A swap file existed on C: drive 1438MB Reboot took 5 minutes roughly After boot D: (hardware backup/install) drive reported being full (unusual) Investigation indicated existance of a 411MB swap file created today on D: My Computer -> Properties Advanced tab indicates The only active swap space is on C: and sized at 1438MB however the total swap space actove in the bottom of the screen is the 411MB that happens to be on the D drive Deleted swap space on C: rebooted and could delete swap space on D: Boot time speeded up. Ran SuperAMTISpyware and Spybot -- no errors Ran Avast boot scan -- some trojan errors in games on d: drive (placed in chest) Later actions prove these apparently were not the problem Updated to XP Media Center Service Pack 3 Updated all critical and recommended updates (later removed Windows Desktop Serach -- I did not want it) Allocated Swap file again on C Drive Rebooted (again took 5 minutes) 465MB swapfile appeared on the D: drive where none was before Again My Computer -> properties indicates Allocated swap space was on c drive at 1438NB However active swap space on the bottom of the same window was 465MB the size of the automatically created file on the D drive Does this sound like a known condition anyone has observed? Thanks in advance for any assistance -- I will comply with the diagnosis, etc necessary to submit an HJT log to the proper forum tomorrow morning if the problem is not corrected in the process. |
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Aug 4 2008, 06:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 21-December 07 From: Michigan Member No.: 178,104 |
This item can be closed -- the machine was in need of a scandisk on the C"drive and the problem resolved.
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Aug 4 2008, 07:03 PM
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 The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 4,728 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
Hello pasha19,
Thank you for letting us know your problem has been taken care of and what the solution was. Orange Blossom 
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