Hard drive spinning?


  1. billberry12
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    Hard drive spinning?


    I noticed today that may hard drive is itermitantly spinng all the time, even when I have nothing running. How can I check and see what's going on?
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    Bill
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  3. billberry12
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    What does this mean?


    I ran this and checked my processes, but I don't know what's normal.
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  4. Uber Philf
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    Harddrive is ALWAYS on when your PC has power, regardless if you have nothing running, has to get the OS from the HDD at some stage...
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  6. billberry12
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    i know it's always on. I mean t is spinning (working) while I am doing nothing at the destop. By spinning, I mean the little green lite that indicates spinning is on most of the time.
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  7. Uber Philf
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    billberry12 said:
    i know it's always on. I mean t is spinning (working) while I am doing nothing at the destop. By spinning, I mean the little green lite that indicates spinning is on most of the time.
    That light represents the HDD being accessed, possibly Search Indexer, or AV doing a scan perhaps?
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  8. pparks1
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    AV scan, defrag, indexing...any of these things could be running in the background and accessing your hard drive.
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  10. whs
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    You have to check the processes that are running at that time - either in Task Manager or Process Explorer.
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