HARD DRIVE ACTIVITY FOR UNKOWN CAUSE?

[akasmia]

AFTER WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL BOOTS I KEEP HEARING HARD DRIVE ACTIVITY FOR UP TO 30-40 MINUTES!. NO PROGRAM
RUNNING, TASK MANAGER DOES NOT LIST ANY RUNNING PROGRAMS.
ANY THOUGHTS.

 

[gargouille]

Look under the Processes tab of Task Manager...there'll be a long list of processes...and usage of the CPU may give a clue.
Do you have Microsoft Office/Fastfind on the computer?
Sometimes that will cause it....and removal may fix it.
How long since you did scandisk/defrag?
There may also be a virus scan that's run at startup that's causing it...it should show up in the processes.

 

[firewolfrl]

is your file system NTFS
if it is, try disabling Index services on each drive

 

[Zebed00]

Can try running DISKPERF -N which disables Disk Performance Counters - I used to have exactly the same on my system until I disabled DISKPERF - attached is a link to the MS KB

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;253251

Hope it helps!

 

[Jasen]

Both the indexing service and the system restore feature will activate occasionally and check/scan files. I generally turn off both of these. ________
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