XP Pro is hittin' my drive...

[countSchemula]

Win XP Pro on a Asus dual Athlon 1800 with 1GB RAM.

It's hittin' my hard drive just sitting there.

It's quiet, then every minute or two, it makes a little "bzzzzzt" noise cuz it's hittin the hard drive.

What is it doing and how can I get it to stop? This thing may have already killed a new 40GB IBM deskstar. It's on trial for that senseless death now.

Anyway, I suspect some kind of automatic something, but I think I've turned off most of the automatic features.

I don't need auto-backup or auto-anything that I'm aware of.

tips?

 

[Nothinman]

If you're drive died from that little bit of use it's a good thing, cause it would have went sooner or later anyway.

 

[Abzstrak]

its probably swapping out to VM, which is normal for windows regardless of how much ram you have... you can run a "diskperf -N" to turn off the performance counters and it may help you alittle.

And I agree with Nothinman, the drive woulda died sooner or later, the extra strain of VM shouldn't affect the life of the drive.