excessive hard drive activity vista premium

My hard drive appears to be running intermittently attempting to do
something even when there is no computer activity. Occassionally I get a
sign appearing "The backup was unable to be completed" Can anyone explain
how I may cure this?

Thanks

"Trevor" <trev@v21.com> wrote in message
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> My hard drive appears to be running intermittently attempting to do
> something even when there is no computer activity. Occassionally I get a
> sign appearing "The backup was unable to be completed" Can anyone explain
> how I may cure this?
>
> Thanks

As regards hard drive activity - there is very rarely any time when "there
is no computer activity".
Windows Visa has a number of processes that run to help improve the
efficiency of certain tasks and speed up the general use of your PC, such
as SuperFetch and ReadyBoot which may cause additional disk activity as they
perform there job.
As regards backup messages - are you running any scheduled tasks to take
backups or snapshots or do you use previous versions etc ?

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Mike Brannigan

Mike,

Thanks for reply. I have not scheduled any backups. How would I check?

Thanks
"Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost> wrote in message
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> "Trevor" <trev@v21.com> wrote in message
> news:yv-dnau20LP5AerbRVnytgA@bt.com...
>> My hard drive appears to be running intermittently attempting to do
>> something even when there is no computer activity. Occassionally I get a
>> sign appearing "The backup was unable to be completed" Can anyone explain
>> how I may cure this?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> As regards hard drive activity - there is very rarely any time when "there
> is no computer activity".
> Windows Visa has a number of processes that run to help improve the
> efficiency of certain tasks and speed up the general use of your PC, such
> as SuperFetch and ReadyBoot which may cause additional disk activity as
> they perform there job.
> As regards backup messages - are you running any scheduled tasks to take
> backups or snapshots or do you use previous versions etc ?
>
> --
>
> Mike Brannigan

Sounds like Vista Backup is trying to make a backup image (hence disk
activity), then warning you it has failed to complete.

Start/Orb, Control Panel, Classic View, Backup and Restore Center... change
settings...

"Trevor" <trev@v21.com> wrote in message
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> Mike,
>
> Thanks for reply. I have not scheduled any backups. How would I check?
>
> Thanks
> "Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost> wrote in message
> news5DE1848-F43E-4236-9C34-70AD9C265687@microsoft.com...
>> "Trevor" <trev@v21.com> wrote in message
>> news:yv-dnau20LP5AerbRVnytgA@bt.com...
>>> My hard drive appears to be running intermittently attempting to do
>>> something even when there is no computer activity. Occassionally I get a
>>> sign appearing "The backup was unable to be completed" Can anyone
>>> explain how I may cure this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> As regards hard drive activity - there is very rarely any time when
>> "there is no computer activity".
>> Windows Visa has a number of processes that run to help improve the
>> efficiency of certain tasks and speed up the general use of your PC,
>> such as SuperFetch and ReadyBoot which may cause additional disk activity
>> as they perform there job.
>> As regards backup messages - are you running any scheduled tasks to take
>> backups or snapshots or do you use previous versions etc ?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Brannigan
>