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HDD light keeps blinking
Hello,
I have recently obtained a laptop with W7 Home Premium installed. This is the first time I'm using W7.
My HDD light on the laptop keeps blinking, even when I'm not doing anything, just staring at the desktop. I don't notice anything on the performance, everything seems to run fine.
One thing I was immediately aware of is how W7 seems to run a lot of processes in the background; indexing, defragging, etc... I have turned these off, along with stuff like WDefender, Firewall, my hdd light still keeps blinking.
I have also noticed that googling this issue reveals lots of results with mixed replies. Some say HDD light is supposed to be blinking and/or this is completely normal, others say it might be an issue.
Just as I was writing this, I also downloaded a gadget for monitoring hdd: Drives Meter. Looking at the graph, the hdd doesn't seem to be doing much. It usually stays on %0,
just some little activity here and there... Yet the light is blinking on a heartbeat rate. Bear in mind, I am running Comodo+Eset at the background; however, for comparison, on my PC (running XP Pro) which also runs Comodo+Eset, there is no blinking whatsoever.
So my question: Is this actually a problem?