Hard Drive Continually Active

[Guest]

My hard drive is continually active even when I'm not doing anything on the
computer. It's like it's contantly indexing. Is there any setting I can click
to turn this off in XP SP2. Even as I'm writing this message, the hard drive
is constantly churping like an annoying budgie. Thanks if you can help.

 

[Michel Racicot]

It may be because:

-You don't have enough RAM Memory and the OS needs to constantly paginate.
-You may have a spyware/malicious software installed that do something to
your files (sending them via internet to someone else?)
-Do you use any indexing software such as Google Desktop Search?
-Maybe it's your anti-virus software... Try turning it off for some time to
see if it's the case.

That's about all the things I can think of for now...

 

[Michel Racicot]

Also, in the Windows Task Manager, you can add the I/O Reads and I/O Writes
columns to see what software use your HDD the most...

Go to the View->Select Columns... option to do that.

 

[Jim Lewandowski]

Download FILEMON from http://www.sysinternals.com

Then see exactly what files are being accessed.

Likely it's NTFS stuff and antivirus.

JL

 

[DL]

And, it can be caused by a failing hd