Re: Server 2003 slow to a crawl

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On 12 Jul, 12:02, Dragos CAMARA <drago...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
hi,
try filemonhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx
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Dragos CAMARA
MCSA Windows 2003 server

"d.bar...@xxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
The server was running fine until a week ago, but it's slowed to a
disc-boundcrawl. CPU time is 1-2%, Network activity is negligible,
but the HDD is constantly in action. There have been no significant
changes to the setup. Task manager shows no unusual activity. At the
moment, no-one can even log in. Windows on the server take around 5
minutes to open up, so detective work is horribly slow.

Is there a way to determine which process is driving the HDD activity?

Ideas for where to look next...most welcome.

Thanks

Thanks everyone. It turned out to be a Hard Disc error right in the
middle of the event log. I guess that every time the event log was
written to, it generated an error. Ran chkdsk on the affected drive
and it pinpointed the problem.

Regards

.

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