ASUS ux32a HDD tick tick grr tick tick grr

Just wondering, is the hard drive supposed to be so noisy? It is consistently "running" as if its looking for some file or has a background prorgrame - but it happens even when machine is idle with nothing in task manager.
Its the standard seek noise and i dont think its anything like the click of death etc.
ive done a virus scan, checked hdd activity and both normal. It also happens in safe mode and evens starts before windows actually loads up. Oh and i switched indexing off but it still happens..

It may have happened after an update? Maybe a driver or something?

 

Run performance monitor (perfmon.exe) and go to "disk" and sort by "read".

It could be any number of things, like disk indexing, scheduled defrag or AV scan, etc.

 

Hi thanks for reply. Not sure what i was looking for from what you suggested but "System" had the most read number at 28,000.. theres about another 5 with numbers ranging from 200-2000?
Explorer.exe ( im using chrome, dont know if thatas internet explorer or something else?) and dwm.exe keep popping up and going away..
Svchost also there...

doesnt go past 100kb/disk I/O

 

If you expand the column for the process name, it should have in parenthesis detailed info on what system process is using all that disk i/o.

 

Its just a load of "system" and "svchost.exe(local)... Some liveupdates but they come and go..
RAVPLC64 came on for a bit, that sounds sus?!

Im a bit of a noob, so i might be doing something wrong, but thanks for the replies.

 

RAVCPL64 is realtek audio control panel or whatever.

I mean if you drag the top divider of the column to the right, you can make the field bigger to see what is in the parenthesis after system. That will give you a specific name of the system process.

 

Loads of netframework 64s? Probably im doing something wrong.. getting late in uk!
generally the disk i/o is low, it just hit 100 a couple of times?

Its ironic as im watching Sheldon on tbbt, and i need to grab him from the screen to my laptop!

 

I recently bought an ASUS UX32a and it was doing this from day one. I kept it for about a month, hoping it would stop after I did a clean install of Windows 8. It carried on making the same noises, so today I talked to the guy in PC World who said this seems to be happening to about one in ten of these machines, and it would be covered under their warranty. I'm going to swap it out with a an SSD when they're cheaper, but I'm pretty relieved that it's not how it's meant to be.. the noise was driving me insane!