Hard drive keeps working

[duragezic]

Lately my hard drive has been constantly accessed for no reason. Like today, I came on my computer, closed down Speed Disk (just defragged the drives overnight), and it started working. Then I load up windows explorer and it continues working for a minute and it got annoying so I just restarted my comp. It's been doing that before too. I'll just be on the comp with a few small things open (1 or 2 IE windows, ICQ, and winamp) and it will keep getting accessed for at least a minute. It's really annoying. I don't have anything running in the background either.

And also, within the last 2 or 3 days my computer has just restarted all of a sudden on my a couple times. Don't know why it is it has never did that before.

 

[copyfixer]

Sounds to me like you've added/deleted programs too many times. Ever thoght of using a write to zero program and reloading everything from there?

 

[MustangSVT]

could it be a virus? run the computer in safe mode to see if u get same results, if not, your problem is coming from certain program or driver (meaning hard drive is ok).

 

[duragezic]

copyfixer: You mean format it? I was thinking that could be it. It hasn't been that long since this install though.

MustangSVT: I ran a virus check a few weeks ago and it found none (that was after like 6 months of not even having a virus). I'll install AV again tonight if I have time. But since it's random it's hard to tell. Like since this morning when it did it, it's been the this whole day.

 

[copyfixer]

Eagle:

A reformat might take care of it. I guess if I go through the trouble of reformatting, I go through the extra of writing it to zero first, then you re-partition and reformat. The advantage of writing to zero (low level format) is that you get a completely clean hard drive, like factory new,not one where the info has just been changed. You can download these programs from the manufacturer or go to IBM.com and download wipe and zap.

 

[bevancoleman]

It could be Windows Scheduler is running stuff in the backgound