I also have Avast on my Vista partition. The same thing is happening there,
but to a lesser degree. My Windows 7 O/S is quiet now.
Later today I plan to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials and reinstall
Avast on Windows 7 - just to see what transpires.
I think that when it is sorted I am going to return the drive anyway (I have
an RMA). All that head banging could not have been good for the internals.
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"Paul Smith" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Certainly a bit unusual.
>
> Do you have Avast on the Windows Vista partition too?
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uWHAucE9JHA.288@xxxxxx Quote:
>> FOOD FOR THOUGHT
>>
>> I was talking to Western Digital today and they gave me an RMA to return
>> a "defective" 1 gig hard drive that sounded like a garbage truck for the
>> past 4-5 days. I could hear the drive in the next room while watching
>> television. I'm glad to say I don't have to return the drive.
>>
>> Today I downloaded the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials for testing
>> purposes. I uninstalled Avast and installed MSE. After a reboot (I always
>> do this after an install) the hard drive was quiet! The drive had
>> previously sounded like the heads were slamming into the stops. What a
>> noise. I also checked my processes in Task Manager and found that one
>> Avast process had over 22 **BILLION** read accesses within 1/2 hour after
>> booting up.
>>
>> Anyway, all now seems well. I guess it was an Avast update that started
>> my main hard drive going spastic.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>
>>