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External HD of Laptop being mysteriously accessed by system.
My Dell laptop running Win7 Pro has a 1.5 TB SATA drive attached by USB. I use this as my main data archive. Recently the drive has started to be accessed for long periods of time for no apparent reason when the computer is not actively in use.
The drive is very noisy with much clickety-clacking when being accessed. Consequently I'm trying to decide which is more disturbing, the paranoia arising from the fact that my data is perhaps being accessed by an unknown entity, or the stress of being woken from my slumbers at 3AM in the morning by something resembling a passing freight train. A damned long one at that.
I tried turning off the Windows Search service in an attempt to prevent indexing of the drive but to no avail.
The drive accessing always seems to stop soon after I tap the touchpad of the laptop, cancelling the screen blanker and displaying the desktop.
Please can anyone tell me how I might prevent this unwanted phenomenon?
Kind regards,
MickyLuv