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I don't know anything really, but I have a similar setup. I have 3 hard drives--two (one is USB and the other internal--3TB between them) have all of our movie DVDs ripped onto them (we use a projector--no TV) and the third (smaller) has two partitions--operating system and Gateway's recovery partition. We don't get anything spooling up unnaturally.
I have Windows XP on this and Avast free home virus protection, and Spybot. I also run CC Cleaner pretty regularly and let it do what it wants.
The last time I had a computer that kept spooling up the drive it was way, way out of date. I think I had a K6-2 with 256K of memory and every time I touched a key the hard drive would explode into action. Maybe you are getting close to needing a memory upgrade and even though it isn't using the drive for page filing, it's starting it up.
I would get rid of Norton or McAfee if you have it and use Avast, plus keep Spybot on it. And run CC Cleaner.
I have Windows XP on this and Avast free home virus protection, and Spybot. I also run CC Cleaner pretty regularly and let it do what it wants.
The last time I had a computer that kept spooling up the drive it was way, way out of date. I think I had a K6-2 with 256K of memory and every time I touched a key the hard drive would explode into action. Maybe you are getting close to needing a memory upgrade and even though it isn't using the drive for page filing, it's starting it up.
I would get rid of Norton or McAfee if you have it and use Avast, plus keep Spybot on it. And run CC Cleaner.