excessive disk access

[hobby16]

Hi all,

My install is
Biostar motherboard + NEW 80G HD Seagate NTFS + 512 Meg RAM + Win2k updated

I have my disk starting to grind for ~20-100 s after about 30-100s of
inactivity (CPU usage is always ~0%). The grinding stops as soon as I
access the disk (by expanding a folder with Explorer for example). Also,
when I transfer a big file through wifi (~30 min), no grinding occurs!
I have installed W2k many times before and never had this kind of problem.

The following things have been done with NO success
Defragmentation, as few services as possible, indexing service stopped,
changed NTFS to FAT32

When booting with knoppix (Linux), no such problem => it must be an OS
problem. I tried to determine which task is responsible for this
excessive disk access (with filemon.exe) but nothing is seen!
Can anyone help me, this disk noise is driving me crazy!
Many thanks in advance

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,

My install is
Biostar motherboard + NEW 80G HD Seagate NTFS + 512 Meg RAM + Win2k updated

I have my disk starting to grind for ~20-100 s after about 30-100s of
inactivity (CPU usage is always ~0%). The grinding stops as soon as I
access the disk (by expanding a folder with Explorer for example). Also,
when I transfer a big file through wifi (~30 min), no grinding occurs!
I have installed W2k many times before and never had this kind of problem.

The following things have been done with NO success
Defragmentation, as few services as possible, indexing service stopped,
changed NTFS to FAT32

When booting with knoppix (Linux), no such problem => it must be an OS
problem. I tried to determine which task is responsible for this
excessive disk access (with filemon.exe) but nothing is seen!
Can anyone help me, this disk noise is driving me crazy!
Many thanks in advance

It's perhaps a little premature to say that this "must be an OS problem".
Any number of applications could cause this type of activity, e.g. a
file indexing program, a virus scanner, a spyware scanner, FastFind,
a spyware program. Run msconfig.exe
(http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnldoth.htm), then examine all
your startup tasks. You should also have a close look
at the various processes and services that run on your PC. What
does the Event Logger report?

How did you change NTFS to FAT?

 

[hobby16]

Pegasus (MVP) a écrit :

It's perhaps a little premature to say that this "must be an OS problem".
Any number of applications could cause this type of activity, e.g. a
file indexing program, a virus scanner, a spyware scanner, FastFind,
a spyware program. Run msconfig.exe
(http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnldoth.htm), then examine all
your startup tasks. You should also have a close look
at the various processes and services that run on your PC. What
does the Event Logger report?

I must have the fewest services possible! (no network, no indexing, no
fastfind, no antivirus...). And no spyware or virus found. An Event
Logger reports... nothing.
I thought that it's an OS problem because on my other W2k PCs, no such
excess disk activity.

How did you change NTFS to FAT?

With Partition Magic!