My brother’s hard drive has recently begun spinning for apparently no reason. I reboot and disable extra items in Win 7 (via msconfig) and after reboot the system idles fine for a while. But in less than an hour, it starts spinning really fast and it will keep spinning fast for hours, if I let it.
There’s no applications running in task manager either. He’s not a techy guy and asked me what could be causing it. I thought to ask here. Any help would be appreciated.
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Something is keeping the drive busy. May be some program running as Windows service.
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Task manager< Processes. Click on the "VIEW" tab, Click "Select Columns", Check the boxes for I/O Reads and I/O Writes. Click "OK".
Task manager will now display programs that are accessing the hard drive and you can see what is causing your problem.
Once you identify the programs that are causing this issue try running anti spyware and anti virus to make sure there isnt a trojan running with the programs. Also see if your HDD is running indexing.
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JoelKhan bhai,
this is the taskmanager after enabling I/O reads and I/O Writes.
Should I uninstall Chrome and install it back, as it seems to be the one causing problem?
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Popat bhai,
csrss.exe seems to be doing the most reads at 42K which sometimes means you have spyware or something. Can you run a anti spyware on your machine?
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It's Suc11_RegistryCleaner. Come on look at the name of this app. Plus memory usage. Whatever it is, it needs to go.
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Suc11_RegistryCleaner.exe is known as Registry Cleaner and it is developed by IObit . We have seen about 10 different instances of Suc11_RegistryCleaner.exe in different location. So far we haven’t seen any alert about this product. If you think there is a virus or malware with this product, please submit your feedback at the bottom.
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^ Sir je mujhay tu ya shakal sa he begharat lagti ha Punjab police style :D
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^ Sir je mujhay tu ya shakal sa he begharat lagti ha Punjab police style :D
lol...I know what you mean though....I would have been suspicious of it as well.
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I ended up re-installing windows 7. This time installed win 7 ultimate, it seems to be ok so far, except that I need to find the activation code as i'm using a trial version which will be done in less than a month now lol.
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^ Install Linux ... Its free and almost like windows
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but then what about all the drivers? ethernet controller, video card, and like 10s of other drivers? easy to find it in Linux?
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How do you know that its the hard drive that is spinning fast, and not the cooling fan? Is this a laptop? If so, the spinning could be that of the fan. You perhaps need to cool the laptop down by venting it better perhaps?
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Though i am not a technical guy but i had similar problem and found out that excess sound was due to fan.
I dont think that iobit is some thing good, i had this installed and had to remove it IObit Start Menu 8 for Windows 8 Free download, Bring Windows 8 Start Menu back becuase my laptop keyboard used to stop working at times.
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some program running as Windows service.
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^ Install Linux ... Its free and almost like windows
+1. I use it at home and work and its great. The drivers are easy to find just takes a bit of time on Google.
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Something is keeping the drive busy.
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Preforming a disk check could help.