Hard drive spinning?

[billberry12]

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?
Thanks,
Bill

 

[billberry12]

What does this mean?

I ran this and checked my processes, but I don't know what's normal.

 

[Uber Philf]

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...

 

[billberry12]

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.

 

[Uber Philf]

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?

 

[pparks1]

AV scan, defrag, indexing...any of these things could be running in the background and accessing your hard drive.

 

[whs]

You have to check the processes that are running at that time - either in Task Manager or Process Explorer.