Hard drive always running

[WiSaGaN]

I can hear my hard drive running all the time.

Even when I am not doing anything, it is still like readying or writing something like one second a time.

Is this the problem of caching or not?

What should I do with it?

Thanks in advance.

[sugo]

Have you tried the filemon utility? It might give you an idea on which process is using the disk.

[WiSaGaN]

What filemon logs is

there are mainly two processes doing the disk operation
many of the operations are like this.


Rtvscan.exe:2180 READ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5\Logs\04012007.Log SUCCESS Offset: 4461231 Length: 256

ccEvtMgr.exe:416 QUERY INFORMATION c:\WINDOWS\system32\SymNeti.dll SUCCESS Length: 517848

i logged for half a minute without and active programs.

and the filemon got twelve thousand entrys such as the above.

are they the real time scan thing?
I don't know how to turn them off

[WiSaGaN]

I found that option. I think i should switch the option from all types to scan to smart scan.

[arthurcorell]

I found the same thing on my laptop. The Symantec Client Security always running.

I uninstalled and using Zone Alarm now.

[WiSaGaN]

Yeah, I am using NOD32 instead of the Symantec

[dsigma6]

Maybe unrelated, but TweakUI allows you to turn off an option, something like "Optimize HD when not in use." I don't know if that means defrag or what, but it wouldn't hurt to turn that off.