New SSD C drive but what is accessing 3 old HDD's in turn every second

Could you do another Disk Management screen shot. Maybe I can see something else. Thanks,[/QUOTE]

My pleasure...

If that Win7 on Disk0 is still active then it is booting off of the System Reserved partition on Disk 3, since it has no System partition and can't otherwise be booted from it's Logical partition. But I thought you said you unplugged all other HD's when you installed to C. Is H still bootable from BIOS?

I would want the OS HD in Disk0 if possible, set to boot first in BIOS setup.

I'd then wipe each HD with Diskpart Clean Command after moving it's data off temporarily, repartition it as a Logical data drive. This wipes the boot sector so that no code can interfere until the next time it is made bootable. We know this is a problem because it solves install failures about half the time.

whs said:

Look in Resource Monitor > Disk tab. That may give you more insight of what is happening - both from the graphs on the right as from the list items above.

Hi WHS, yeah had a look at that, it's kciking off there, but not entirely sure what I'm looking at or for. It's all happening son fast difficult to make out whats going on. Disk activity is all C: drive...system and a svchost. see snip.
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whs said:

The Resource Monitor window would be more telling if it were ordered in the 'write' column. From what I see, most activity is coming from Chrome. And you are right - all the action is on C:.

Hows that?

Then H is booting off of System Reserved since it can't boot itself on a Logical partition.

Strange, possibly problematic.

Are you sure you're not getting a Windows Boot Menu instead of using BIOS Boot menu which would rely on boot files on the HD HD which aren't there?

Diskpart Clean Command
Partition / Extended : Logical Drives - Windows 7 Forums
Partition Wizard boot CD
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Stupid page keeps saying I've got to put more than 3 characters in, when I've wrtten all this;-


Then H is booting off of System Reserved since it can't boot itself on a Logical partition.
How do you know that H is booting? I'll just unplug it from the pwr & mobo & see what happens...
Strange, possibly problematic.

Are you sure you're not getting a Windows Boot Menu instead of using BIOS Boot menu which would rely on boot files on the HD HD which aren't there?

Asus boot menu is mouse compatable, yes deffo boot menu "delete" at boot...
The other drives are mostly dated back up stuff, I'll just delete it all as it's backed up as well to my GoFlex extnl drive. Except for the H drive which has some docs & stuff on it, My drive has all my computer based stuff on it since 1998, so carefully does it.