Re: hard drive reving up periodically

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InTheZoneAC wrote:
Whenever I'm on this pc you can hear the hard drive rev up at random times and Im not sure if this is normal. I have run adaware se, spybot, yahoo antispy, avast antivirus and everything is clean. I just want to know if this action is normal and/or is there a way I can make it stop? This pc is a Sony Vaio PCV-W30 running Windows XP SP 2. I also have a ton of extra space on both internal hd's, not sure if that's relevant or not. 

Hi InTheZoneAC,

By "revving up," what do you mean? Is it creating a huge amount of noise? If so, there is a chance that there could be some sort of hardware program, but I doubt this is related to spyware.

If it is acting normally, like it is writing data, it is probably just some program working in the background - even if they do not alert you to this fact, programs are oftentimes constantly doing things, modifying files, searching for updates, and more. Hard drive access when you are seemingly doing nothing is a normal part of the computer experience.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security
Security Manifest: http://www.msmvps.com/trafton/
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