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Pyrotechnic · 12-22-2006, 04:38 PM

I'm running Windows XP Home on my laptop and these paging errors keep showing up in the event viewer.

I'm running an external hard drive. It seems after a few days of being on, I'll hear a "click," then the sound of the drive spinning back up again. What gives here ? There is no page file set for the external drive...yet it's saying paging error. Once the first click happens, it'll happen every few minutes. This is alarming to me because the click sound and this behavior is very similar to hard drives I had in the past that died, although back then I didn't check the event viewer or I was running Win98/98.

Is my hard drive on it's way out or is this an issue with windows ?

12-22-2006, 04:38 PM	#1
Pyrotechnic Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 240	Paging Error ? I'm running Windows XP Home on my laptop and these paging errors keep showing up in the event viewer. I'm running an external hard drive. It seems after a few days of being on, I'll hear a "click," then the sound of the drive spinning back up again. What gives here ? There is no page file set for the external drive...yet it's saying paging error. Once the first click happens, it'll happen every few minutes. This is alarming to me because the click sound and this behavior is very similar to hard drives I had in the past that died, although back then I didn't check the event viewer or I was running Win98/98. Is my hard drive on it's way out or is this an issue with windows ?