Why does my Hard Drive Activity Light Constantly Blink

computersplus said:

have you unchecked everything in your startup list there has to be something that is tying up the memory and hard drive access.

I admit I have not eliminated everything from the startup list. I'll have to try that.

Also you have to take into account the amount of data on your drive the more data there is the longer it will take to index it.

All indexing is turned off. (if your reply was directed to me.)

Jambe said:

All indexing is turned off. (if your reply was directed to me.)

how is the activity with indexing off?

No change. A bit more than one second between blinks.

(My main complaint about this disk activity is this: I use Wizmo and if I run it when there is disk activity (the blink) the computer goes into sleep mode but then immediately comes back to life. Then it takes longer to sleep when Wizmo is run again.)

try killing all the power saving settings

I've killed all power saving, indexing, eliminated much of the start up services, turned off most Windows Features, ran a full virus scan and the light still blinks like its measuring my heartbeat.

where are we at with the blinking if it's just intermittent blinking that's fine but hearing the hard drive thrashing and seeing the light on almost constant is another.

computersplus said:

where are we at with the blinking if it's just intermittent blinking that's fine but hearing the hard drive thrashing and seeing the light on almost constant is another.

Like I mentioned earlier, I wouldn't mind so much but the disk activity seems to be causing recorded audio to skip. I do a lot of digitizing of cassettes and albums using Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio but I am unable to any since the upgrade. I am assuming that the disk activity is causing the skipping.

well I gotta tell you that doing an upgrade is the worst thing to do you would be better served to just wipe the disk clean and start over and I mean delete the partition create a new one format it and install 7 not upgrade to it these forums are littered with problems stemming from upgrades I've said a thousand times that Microsoft needs to stop offering upgrades it does nothing but cause trouble and gives them more of a bum rap because people do it and when it doesn't work properly they bash the OS itself you have to remember if you have any existing problem with the operating system that you are upgrading the upgrade will only magnify the issue.