Massive harddisk accessing problem

Bunny

Right now as I type this the harddisk is accessing, stops for a bit, and keeps going, all the time, if I use task manager, I can see CPU spikes up to 100% every 10/20 seconds.

p4 1.6
512 sd ram
20 gig (XP on that) + 80 gig drive
geforce Ti4200
XP home edition

What I've tried..
Changing the virtual memory to every variable possible, everything.
Adaware and Spybot 1.3 complete searches.
Registry clean out, windows defrag, independant program defrags.
General XP tweaks, set to performance, etc.

Task manager information..

totals handles 7814
totals
handles 7841 (changes alot)
threads 415
processes 32

Commit charge (K)
total 210248
limit 2062680
peak 211876

Physical Memory (K)
Total 523276
Available 283000 ish
System Cache 246000 ish

Kernal Memory (K)
total 61600
paged 37512
nonpaged 24144

About 30 processes running

Is there some program I could download that would diagnose the problem and make everything just work?

Fiddling with my paging virtual memory makes no different whatsoever. I can't format harddrive or reinstall XP.

KdjaCL

Well I not sure which HD it is ,but turn off indexing on the drive its useless.
Make sure DMA is enabled if supported, i imagine the 80gb is faster so switch the XP install to that (use partition manager if you lazy)

Defrag your Page file with this.

I imagine its the indexing thing can be a nightmare on XP sometimes.

kdjac

Bunny

thanks alot
I'll try all that

SantaHoe

Sysinternals have a few utils that might be of use to you.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

Should show you exactly which process is farting around with your HD.