Windows Forum

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Active Hard drives

0 helpful
7 replies

by homeshop

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Running Win2K PRO, the hard drive light will come one for a minute or two slowing down the system about every 20 min.

Any ideas why?

7 replies

by dmiles

Things to check
Anti-virus running in background
Screen Saver enabled
Check to see what services you havve loading
Run scan disk on the hard drive to check for errors

by homeshop

The problem was caused by Norton's active scan and windows file indexing system (something like fast find). When Windows index the file system, Norton needed to scan this index. We have disabled the indexing.

by sprocket99

Could also be an autosave feature in the application you are running. If you are working with a large file, this could also trigger a swap.

by baziite

use perforrmance monitor to check if there are a lot of page faults occuring ...if yes increase the RAM .....the reason is insufficient memmory to hold the running tasks in memmory , causing page faults and excessive swapping .

good luck

This discussion is closed to new replies.