Need Help! Constant HD Thrashing NO matter what I've tried.

[Frost]

Hey Guys, Thaks, for listing. Here's what's been going on for about a month and I've done my best to fix it to no avail.

I have too HD's in my PC. The first is an 80gig WD, the Second is a 40gig IBM both 7200, 2mb.

The problem is that no matter what I'm doing the HD is always making noise, you know like when its searching for a file or your defragmenting and what not. Well at first I defragmenting my C Drive, no help at all. Then, I tried defragging my D, F, and G drive, (both drives are portitioned twice) Same thing.

I tried getting a spyware remover and removed everything that it found, (a chance it didn't find all of it but I'm not sure.)

BTW it even does this before I log onto Windows2000!!!

Any help Immensly appreciated!! This damn*d things driving me nuts.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, but I've tried everything and its still doing it

 

[Munky]

Maybe your hard drive is about to die, and this is your warning sign. How old is the drive?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Is Windows Indexing Service, or MS Office FastFind running in the background?

 

[LTC8K6]

PIO Mode?

Run HDTach and see.

 

[Frost]

Nope, HD's aren't old. Within 2 years each.

VirtualLarry: How would I find that out? Would it be listed as a process under task manager or what cause I didn't see it there.

Nope the HD is definetly in DMA mode its on a KT400a MB and I see in the bios an inside windows that DMA is enabled

Thanks

 

[Munky]

If you have win 2k/xp, in my computer, right-click on c drive, goto properties. There should be an option to enable/disable indexing service. I usually turn it off, but it never caused my drives to go thrashing

 

[Frost]

Thanks munky, I'm trying that now, I've got to finish a paper, but after that I'll restart my comp and see if that helped me. Thanks!

 

[Frost]

Still nothing guys, any other suggestions?

 

[MrControversial]

How much memory do you have? Run a Spyware scan or download Microsoft Antispyware Beta. In my experience, an overactive hard drive has to do with stuff using the hardware...usually unauthorized stuff and not enough memory and the system has to use paged memory.