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.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Paul Smith" wrote in message
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Certainly a bit unusual.

Do you have Avast on the Windows Vista partition too?

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/

"Richard Urban" wrote in message
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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.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience