hdd being used 100% for nothing

[kyle_L]

turned my computer on about an hour ago and hdd is being used 100% by nothing. activity ite is solid. anyone know what this could be.

[Jake_HT]

Huh? Your hard drive is being used 100% by nothing?

[kyle_L]

ya sitting idle with no programs runnig in the background except ccc g15 lcd program. the hdd is seeking and sounding like its wrighting to the drive but is really slow opening anything. i just did a system restore to the farthest date back and its still doing the same thing, and there are no viruses and does the samething in safemode. as i wright this it is slow to put the letters in the txt box.

[Dogger1]

I'm assuming you opened up the Windows Task Manager and check the Applications and Processes tabs?

Just for grins, you might want to maximize your Processes, in Windows Task Manager, take a screen shot and then post that image here. That way we all can take a peek at what's running and hopefully someone might be able to figure out what program is causing your problem.

[gingerbee]

ya what dogger1 said . ( off topic ) just read your quote ha ha ha ha that's great really

[Squeetard]

Go into device manager, delete your primary and secondary ide channels and reboot. See if that fixes it. You could be stuck in PIO mode.

[kyle_L]

ok heres the process tab. last night it stoped being used but now when i wake up itd back to being used 100%. as for all the proccess i have stoped everyone i can and it made no difference. here is screenshot

[sswilson]

You're not running one of those All-in-one system managers are you (like norton's etc.....)?

I used to see this kind of behaviour with an older machine running norton's, and it was basically doing defrags 24/7.

[kyle_L]

nope no norton.

[Squeetard]

I see you have 61 processes running. Click that 'show processes from all users' box to see all of the processes. When you are pegged at 100%, does no good to do it when your system is fine.