A lot of hard drive activity

[randallworthley]

I recently started having my hard drive sound like its reading and writing files constantly even when i'm idling. My rig is only a year old and it never used to do this, maybe on startup it would have a brief minimal amount but now it doesn't stop. I didn't think much of it until my computer ended up freezing two different times when I was playing GTA online. All of my drivers and software are updated. I ran windows defender to make sure nothing came up so I don't think that a virus can be it with how careful I am. I read on forums somewhere to look at the resource monitor and it looks like somethings not right, any pointers would be greatly appreciated

Specs:
Operating System - Windows 10 Pro(64 bit edition)
CPU - Intel Core i7-6700k 4.00GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151(Skylake)
RAM - 16GB(4GBx4) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory(Corsair Vengence)
Hard Drive - 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)
Video Card - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 [VR Ready]
Motherboard - GIGABYTE G1 Sniper Z170 SLI ATX w/ USB 3.1, 3 PCIex16, 2 PCIex1, 3 SATA Express, 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2

 

[ElectrO_90]

run ZHPCleaner to check for malware - best on the market and free

 

[npiet1]

Check the health of the C:/

 

[ElectrO_90]

Hard Disk Sentinel is good at telling if your HD is about to fail. Free for 30 days

 

[BrandonYoung]

Working as designed. Selling your data.

 

[Peter Martin]

Pull up Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab. At bottom click on the Resourse Manager. Then look at the hard drive and it will show you everything that it’s doing. you can sort it by bytes writing and read. that will show you who the offender is

 

[randallworthley]

Pull up Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab. At bottom click on the Resourse Manager. Then look at the hard drive and it will show you everything that it’s doing. you can sort it by bytes writing and read. that will show you who the offender is

I did that and updated the original post so you can see it. I'm not sure what MsMpEng.exe is and it looks to me like a ton of activity going on with that and system for only having open chrome and a few small programs.

 

[Peter Martin]

That is your windows antivirus doing a scan let it finish. It’s Windows defender

 

[randallworthley]

This is almost exactly what it sounds like https://youtu.be/aOZZBxV1Hhw

The sound of the old HDD way back in the day when you'd be waiting 12 hours for it to defragment. Why my equipment now starts to sound this way seems very strange to me.

I ran ZHP Cleaner and it didn't find anything suspicious.

 

[Peter Martin]

the rattle of death. back it up... is it highly fragmented?

 

[TheStig47]

Pull up Task Manager. Click on the Performance tab. At bottom click on the Resourse Manager. Then look at the hard drive and it will show you everything that it’s doing. you can sort it by bytes writing and read. that will show you who the offender is

I did that and updated the original post so you can see it. I'm not sure what MsMpEng.exe is and it looks to me like a ton of activity going on with that and system for only having open chrome and a few small programs.

As someone suggested, run a good malware/anti-virus program to detect malicious software on your computer that may have been picked up unknowingly while you were browsing.

When this happened to me on my PC I used Malwarebytes to eliminate the threat. You can download it for free here: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/

It is very likely you have malware or a trojan horse type virus on your computer causing all the mischief. Use Malwarebytes or some other really good malware/virus checking program to detect and eliminate it.