Massive hard drive activity

I know it seems like stating the obvious. But let's eliminate it anyway. What are your virtual memory settings.
And what's your RAM

GoBack has a problem with defrag. It needs to be disabled when running defrag. You can also run defrag in Safe mode.
Make sure you have the latest version of GoBack (3.0?).
Symantec now owns the application, so try their web site for information. You'll have to search for the word GoBack.
Good luck

Your memory might be low. If you dont have at least 16MB ram for your Windows system, then your hard drive acts as windows RAM and therefore runs more. and if it is noisy, your hard drive might be shot. You might want to add more ram or buy a new hard drive.

this sounds like the sircam worm goto start, run, and type msconfig then look at the startup tab and look for the words (sirc),or (Scam32), if you see either of these then you have a worm that is filling up your hard drive you can get a removal toolfrom symantec.com

this sounds like the sircam worm goto start, run, and type msconfig then look at the startup tab and look for the words (sirc),or (Scam32), if you see either of these then you have a worm that is filling up your hard drive you can get a removal toolfrom symantec.com

go to control panel > performance > virtual memory > change to manually and set the min and max to 1.5 * RAM (the amount of ram that you have) and reboot...you can try to update your bios too and reinstall ide drivers...

It could be many things, it could be that you're launching too many applications on your memory and it is not big enough to hold them so Windows builds a virtual drive into your hard drive and it starts swaping up and down to get it running. You didn't mention how much ram you have installed on your system.
it could be also you have a virus and it is filling up your hard disk with garbage, make sure you have an updated antivirus and let it run.
It could be also that your hard drive is not in a good shape in at has some bad clusters or bad sectors so Windows try to locate files in good sectors of your hard disk and that's why it works so much.
first of all, remove all the TMP files you could have on your system, after that, install a good antivirus, if you go to www.pspl.com there is a trial version which you can unistall later if you don't want to buy it, and let it detect for viruses on your system.
After all this then run Scandisk and Defrag from Safe mode, once this is all donethen chack out all the programs that are being launched by Windows, check your run= and load= on you win.ini and system.ini, also check config.sys and autoexec.sys. There might be an application that is causing this excesive use of your hard disk.
Also make a good backup of your system, the hard disk is a hardware device and if it works too much and read/write too often it will eventually crash, you can bet on it.
So fix this problems as soon as you can othewise you'll endup buying a new harddrive.
Good luck,
@lberto
PS, If it doesn't work let me know

Unless you often need windows to rearrange programs on your hard drive (via scandisk), you can delete logwat95.exe (all instances on hard drive) and see some of the thrashing and slowdowns stop. That one watches how you use programs, logging most ofyour activity.

Another is findfast.exe (windows puts that in your startup folder) delete that shortcut, reboot and see much less unwanted HD activity. It defaults to a refresh about every 15 minutes and reads every directory on every drive.

Another slow-boot device is any office toolbar program you find in your startup folder.

if you use Lotus notes, you can delete QNC.exe and any instances of *.rip files on your HD. These are nothing but trouble.

If you are networked or dialed up when the HD thrashes, there could be some other things going on (from virus to net management programs). See if the same thing happens when not connected to anyone.

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