Why is my harddrive always working?

[alexdg]

My harddrive is always working and i'm worried it wont survive for long. Event after 20 minutes I come back and it's still working...

I turned off all document indexing and all antivirus services and it still continues... Task Manager says that lsass.exe is doing the most I/O operations.

I'm on windows xp home edition. Is there anything I could check to reduce the harddrive activity?

Thank you!

[theyangster]

I think you mean SEEKING, you should glad it is Working! :D

google lsass.exe and see what it come up with

is this a fresh install?

[TheGodfather47]

Isass.exe, in some cases is a virus...Google it to be sure.

[powerade]

zombie pc

[MorfiusX]

Isass.exe, in some cases is a virus...Google it to be sure.
lsass.exe is a required Windows process.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/lsass/

Isass.exe (with "I" = capitalized "i", not lowercase "L") on the other hand is a virus.
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/isass/

http://www.softwarepatch.com/tips/isass.html

[sirius]

It might be swap file activity? Hw much RAM u running on? Check if the drive is full or badly fragmented, run a disk cleanup and defragment the drive if thats the case.