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by geoff59

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Ihave an AMD K2 500 MHz compute where I am running Windows ME. for some unknown reason, which I have not been able to find, the HDD/s run all the time while the computer is left unattended. I have tried selective start-up to try to isolate the problem and have failed. While sitting at my XP computer alongside I can see the red light for the HDD on and hear the HDD running while the ME computer is un-attneded.As soon as I pres a key to open the computer it stops. But soon after the HDD starts running again. I have a RAM optimizer program but when I close this off the HDD still runs.

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by sgt_shultz

commonly, outlook is installed and by default with auto-archiving turned on. that or virus scanning? look at scheduled tasks. do you have plenty of free, defragged hd space

by geoff59

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Plenty of free HDD space. I checked scheduled tasks and found PC Health was dcheduled to run every 10 minutes so I changed this. I dont know how this happened, Thanks.

by rindi1

Are you running a screen saver other than the one which just blanks the display? If yes, turn it off or just use the blank one. The disk should now be OK. How much RAM do have? If you don't have enough, your PC will always be swapping to disk.

by georgian3000

Ok. i understand that your HDD never stops giving that humming sound whenever you are not using it . ok just try this ok
goto control panel-->click power option-->in the power schemes tab(XP)their would be a option which says turn off hard disks (there you can set the idle time say first keep it to 5min if it works,set your own time).
well i do think this should sort your issue for sure.
if still not plz feel free to write back
Tharun

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