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hard drive spinning for no reason

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wxjunkie

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my hard drive's spinning for no reason. i don't think a virus is involved, and i'm not running anything that would start accessing the hard drive that randomly crazy. i don't know if xp's fooling around or what, but does anyone know of software that can show me what the hell is grinding my hdd to death?
 
Could you clarify whether it's "spinning" or "writing"?

If it's only spinning, you can enable the drive to power-down after a specified amount of time in the Control Panel.

If it's writing, then XP's probably "reorganizing" the HD and optimizing it for your usage pattern. I leave my computer on 24/7 and haven't noticed any significant writing, but it could be happening when I'm not at my computer.
 
In all honesty how are you supposed to distinguish between spinning and writing? Hdd's making noise....activity light is on...
I just want to know what the heck it's doing.
 
Indexing service, system restore, rid yourself of these resource hogging disk wasting menaces to society. All should be well. =)
 
does windows normally access or spin your hard drive when it is the secondary drive and nothing is being run on it at that moment? I have my D: drive spin up sometimes just when i start another program that is loaded on only the C: drive.
 
I have System Restore and Indexing enabled and I never notice any accessing at all.
Me thinks there's something else, Norton Systemworks has some programs that would cause all that accessing.
 
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