My hard DISK keeps working like mad non stop. Even if I am doing nothing it is whirrling round like a maniac.
Why won't it take a rest now and then.

It lives in a MSI Notebook using Windows XP home.

It has been doing this for months - pretty slowed down too.
I have tried defragging, deleting lots of programs and nothing has helped.

ChrisSomething - some process - must be hogging CPU time and calling on HDD non stop. Gotta be.

I know OTHERS suggest better but - checkout Taskmanager and see if you can see any process that is sucking this up. Either alt+ctrl+del or start -> Run ->taskmgr.exe See how ''busy'' CPU appears to be.

Then maybe study what is showing in start -> run -> msconfig

Wonder if you have some malignant infection perhaps too.

Check out a bit deeper and LET us know what you find.How much free space do you have ?
What programs are running in the background ?
When is the last time you ran chkdsk ?Never stops. Is it always connected to a network? Try to get it off the NET and wait a bit. Maybe somebody on the net is using your PC . But it that does not help, and it f it keeps on, you may have a failing hard drive. The drive is try to FIX itself. Quote from: Sitka on October 30, 2008, 07:14:14 PM

My hard disk keeps working like mad non stop. Even if I am doing nothing it is whirrling round like a maniac.
Why won't it take a rest now and then.

It lives in a MSI Notebook using Windows XP home.

It has been doing this for months - pretty slowed down too.
I have tried defragging, deleting lots of programs and nothing has helped.

Chris