Nigel Weeks wrote:

>> This is getting very urgent does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>>
> It certainly sounds like a sweep.
> Crack open task manager, find the process that's doing the sweep, and lock
> it to one CPU(affinity), so that one busy process isn't swapping around
> between CPU's
> That should get it done quicker.
>
> Why it's happening, I don't know, but I'm no expert.
> You might just need to give it time to process...
> Is your last backup ok? Can you restore to another machine just to test it?
>
> N.
>
>

Right.It could affinity problem due to 2 processors. Do you have HT
(HyperThreading ) procesors also ?

Regards
Boguslaw