HARD DRIVE ACTIVITY: HDD Light Blinking Every Second….updated 2007-01-03-2:22 pm
What causes the busy-work hard drive activity;
with nothing open the HDD light blinks every second.
How do I find what causes the incessent blinking HDD light ?
It masks HDD activity which should be monitored when installing software, etc.
It seems to be a software problem:
_does not occur in clean install of XP SP1.
_started with install of something after SP2.
(‘Will watch for it next “clean install”)
Doubt that it is a memory or pagefile issue:
_1 GB RAM/memory, 50% free.
_Pagefile set at 4 GB (4096 MB), max and min
(same as virtual memory)
‘Tried turning off everything in the
Startup Menue without success.
(Used Advanced Systen Optimizer utility)
Have checked but cannot find in:
_taskmgr.exe > Processes
_perfmon.msc
“Have seen this issue on other home systems.
Windows XP-home, SP2, IE7.
HDD: internal, SATA, 50 GB NTFS partition
33 % free.
