Hard drive noisy-busy

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Rod Bishop

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My wife's PC has been noisy too much lately. It sounds like the hard drive is constantly backing up data.
I don't have any setup to backup files but that's what it sounds like it's doing. When the noise begins the pc seems to slow down for a second or two but after it runs fine.
Sometimes I can hear hear harddrive thru the wall in a closet just because it seems to back up so much.
It defrags every week on time and there is not any information that were worried about losing.
It does not backup to any online service, it just seems by the noise it almost constantly sounds like it checking, or filing or backing up stuff.

It's running Vista, I know that not the best but it works great for her pc. All the window files are up to date and AVG is the antivirus. It a Pentium 4 running at 3.2 with 1 gig of ram.

Nice machine, but the drive is busy most of the time. It's not a bad drive sound or a failing drive, it's just anoying her more and more and that's anoying me more and more if you know what I mean.

It's a 80g HD. I know I could get a larger HD but she hardly uses 30% leaving most of the drive free.

Any one know what I could check about auto backup to kill the issue?
Thanks
 
With it being an 80gb drive, basically means its pretty old. After so long, it starts wearing out. You are running 1gb on Vista, which isn't enough. So your system is using your hard drive as memory. You need to upgrade your memory if possible and most likely do a fresh install of windows. Have you done any system maintenance on it lately? Not talking about defragmenting. Talking about checking for malware/viruses and running Ccleaner.
 
I'ts a fresh install

The Vista was upgraded from XP about a year ago with a full formatted new clean Vista installation.
I have two systems exactly alike one with XP still and hers with Vista. For the first seven months everything was pretty much silent.
Now it's just gotten anoying to hear the harddrive. It actually sounds like the system is backing up data.
None of my systems are set to backup anything, but that the sound.
It doesn't sound like the drive is going bad, it sounds like a setup issue or OS, or saving data over and over again.

Other than that noise the system works perfect

Any setup or software auto save that I can change? I know hardware, but I'm a second hand software tech.
 
Check task manager for cpu usage. See if anything is using it up. Could be anything from low on ram, malware or hard drive going out.
 
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