Excesssive Hard drive activity

[Guest]

I am running XP pro, but have one item that is driving me nuts. Excessive
Hard Drive activity! I am thinking my hard drive lifetime is going to be
severely shortened, with it being accessed about every 3 seconds for long
periods.

I have up to date anti-virus and spyware applications which are run
regularly, and have tried other on-line scanners, but nothing found.

I downloaded a drive activity scanner (Filemon.exe) to monitor what is going
on, and the big culprit seems to be Windows itself. The most common thing I
see, that is actually writing to the hard drive, shows as:

Frocess: System 4:
Request: IRP_MJ_Write (or create, Flush_Buff, etc.)

Does anyone have any idea what Windows is doing for long periods, and how to
stop it?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You didn't mention the RAM but less than 512 or so might cause excessive
thrashing (paging) to take place.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I am running XP pro, but have one item that is driving me nuts. Excessive
| Hard Drive activity! I am thinking my hard drive lifetime is going to be
| severely shortened, with it being accessed about every 3 seconds for long
| periods.
|
| I have up to date anti-virus and spyware applications which are run
| regularly, and have tried other on-line scanners, but nothing found.
|
| I downloaded a drive activity scanner (Filemon.exe) to monitor what is
going
| on, and the big culprit seems to be Windows itself. The most common thing
I
| see, that is actually writing to the hard drive, shows as:
|
| Frocess: System 4:
| Request: IRP_MJ_Write (or create, Flush_Buff, etc.)
|
| Does anyone have any idea what Windows is doing for long periods, and how
to
| stop it?

 

[Guest]

I have 1 Gb of Ram. The disk thrashing is going on even when I have no
applications running. I have tried disabling my firewall, anti-virus, and
spy sweeper, no affect. Drive is still sometimes being thrashed. Right now,
it is pretty quiet, but at other times it is being accessed heavily.

I do not have a computer "slow down" as is often the case with spyware etc.,
just this nerve wracking hard drive usage.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Maybe these help.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._887fcb59-e54b-417c-8c40-5e2a4369c722.xml.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._887fcb59-e54b-417c-8c40-5e2a4369c722.xml.asp

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I have 1 Gb of Ram. The disk thrashing is going on even when I have no
| applications running. I have tried disabling my firewall, anti-virus, and
| spy sweeper, no affect. Drive is still sometimes being thrashed. Right
now,
| it is pretty quiet, but at other times it is being accessed heavily.
|
| I do not have a computer "slow down" as is often the case with spyware
etc.,
| just this nerve wracking hard drive usage.

 

[John R Weiss]

I am running XP pro, but have one item that is driving me nuts. Excessive
Hard Drive activity! I am thinking my hard drive lifetime is going to be
severely shortened, with it being accessed about every 3 seconds for long
periods.

I have up to date anti-virus and spyware applications which are run
regularly, and have tried other on-line scanners, but nothing found.

Disable Indexing of the Hard Drives. Indexing works during otherwise idle
periods.

 

[Tony Luxton]

I had this and I stopped the indexing service; it stopped straight away.

regards Tony.

 

[Guest]

I checked all the things people said to check, to no avail. I finally found
the culprit! Darned Norton GoBack in my Norton Systemworks. Dumped that
sucker! If you have that running, get rid of it. It will trash a hard drive
well before it's time.