Use the Performance and Reliability Monitor in Adminstrative Tools to get an
idea of what is going on with the drive activity. This gave me useful info
and a suggested course to take in a similar situation. I found out that the
system was spending excessive time writing to the page file and followed the
suggestion in the report.

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> 3gb.
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> it usually starts when the computer is just sitting idle. Internet
> Explorer doesnt' seem to interrupt it but If I start a game it usually
> stops. If I go into sleep mode, the hard drive will continue to run
> almost immediately after waking it up. i also have turned off
> powerboost.
> Colin Barnhorst;3727131 Wrote:[color=green]
>> How much memory do you have? If you have 2GB or less then I am not
>> surprised the hard drive runs constantly and it still will no matter
>> what
>> you turn off. It is paging to virtual memory on the hard drive. The
>> solution is to add more memory so that the system does not have to
>> keep
>> moving things back and forth.
>>
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>> > I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off
>> > indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the
>> > time when I'm not doing anything on the computer.
>> >
>> > What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this?
>> >
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