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by kernow_boy
Your hard drive could be doing a number of things tha t might explain what is going on the most likly is that it is updating swap and temporary files.
If you want to see what is going on while this is happening press Alt Ctrl and Del and hit the task list button, this will show you what applications and processes are running on your machine.
Hope this helps
by mcollis
by pocono
You might want to run your Anti-Virus software, just to be on the safe side.
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by mcollis
by bjlumpki
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by thechas
Windows will just go out and access the drive on a periodic basis.
Among other tasks, Windows may look to see if the files in the recent documents menu are still there, update the desktop, refresh the swap file, the list goes on and on.
If these are short spurts of drive activity, that is likely what is happening.
Chas
by mcollis
by d_v ant
Another culprit of unexplained disk activity is MS Office Find Fast. It will scan your drive for Office file locations and build an index of them to speed up access to them. Look in the Control Panel for the Find Fast Icon. You can temporarily disable it and that will help determine if it is causing the activity. It runs every 2 hours by default, so it is definitely a suspect.
Hope this helps
by mcollis
by otl
After this happens;
Annotate the time it happens.
Run find files, looking for all that have been accessed in the last 1 day.
Sort them in desending order by date/time.
By looking at file extensions you should be able to determine what was using the HD at the time it was running.
by mcollis
by shanghai sam
An overactive Hard Drive can be a sign that you do not have enough RAM. If the computer does not have enough RAM is uses the Hard Drive as slow RAM. In a simple example the CPU tells memory hold on to ?A? I will need it when I am done with ?B?. RAM has ?C? in it which the RAM offloads to the Hard Drive. Now the CPU comes back to the RAM and says here is ?B? I will need it back in a nanosecond or two, now give me ?C?. RAM off loads ?A? to the Hard Drive collects ?B? from the CPU, passes ?B?to the Hard Drive and loads C into RAM which it passes on to the CPU (which has been bored waiting with nothing to do). The RAN is now empty and it loads ?B? (since the CPU said it would need it in a nanosecond or two). Now the CPU comes back and says here is ?C? now I need ?A? and than ?B?. And than ?C?, than I will be done and give you the solution ?Z? for you to save. Now the RAM saves ?B? back to the Hard Drive and loads ?C? from the CPU which it than pass on to the Hard Drive and collects ?A? off the Hard Drive which it hands back to the CPU. The RAM now loads ?B? which it gives to the CPU when the CPU asks for it. The RAM is empty and knows the CPU has already indicated that it would need ?C? so it goes to the Hard Drive and gets it. The CPU asks for ?C? which again it gets only from RAM. Now the CPU finishes combining ?A, B, and C? and gives the solution ?Z? to the RAM to save and tells the RAM that it will now need to work with ?D, E, F, and G? which it will append to ?Z? later. At this point the Hard Drive kills itself and the reader of this falls asleep.
To summarize: The fastest storage is RAM which operates in nanoseconds. The Hard Drive works in Milliseconds, and while all this is being swapped around the CPU is not working (or working part-time). This slows down your computer, speeds up your hard drive and makes you wonder why?
Jim
by eric_hui
It is most likely similar to my problem before. Finally, I turn off S.M.A.R.T Monitoring feature in BIOS setting then my HDD stop spinning with no program running.
Eric
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