Hi Terry,
> * My daughter switched on her laptop and Skype told me she had come
> online.
>
> * The hard drive started chattering and the drive light was almost
> solid red (this may be co-incidental of course).
If there's little time between the two then I'd blame Skype.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/977979
You could leave `dstat 10' running in a terminal window and then you'd
be able to look at its scrollback after the next instance.
Perhaps a Google+ hang-out could replace Skype? :-)
If it's not that then perhaps some disk indexing task? Log files in
/var/log might show something starting around the time of your troubles.
Cheers, Ralph.
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