Guest kim Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. Hi, my hard disk drive activity light is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup items and services in msconfig and tried that then I tried booting into safe mode but the HDD activity still continues. None of my other machines do this. What is causing this HDD activity is this normal ? Thanks Kim
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity Windows has a number of "House Keeping" tasks it performs when the system is idle. This can be things like processing the Layout.Ini file, defrag and volume indexing. It can also be an indication of Malware using your machine for unknown purposes. Several tools are Disk Monitor or Process Explorer from SysInternals. Both can help to view activities running on the computer. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:%23FIogFj6HHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. > Hi, my hard disk drive activity light > is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about > every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup > items and services in msconfig and tried that then I tried booting into > safe > mode but the > HDD activity still continues. None of my other machines do this. What is > causing this HDD activity is this normal ? > > Thanks > Kim >
Guest Unknown Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity Try turning off indexing. "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:%23FIogFj6HHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. > Hi, my hard disk drive activity light > is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about > every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup > items and services in msconfig and tried that then I tried booting into > safe > mode but the > HDD activity still continues. None of my other machines do this. What is > causing this HDD activity is this normal ? > > Thanks > Kim >
Guest kim Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity Thanks for replying, I just tried that but it made no difference. Kim "Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote in message news:oXhBi.7261$924.5332@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net... > Try turning off indexing. > "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message > news:%23FIogFj6HHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >> Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >> is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >> every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup >> items and services in msconfig and tried that then I tried booting into >> safe >> mode but the >> HDD activity still continues. None of my other machines do this. What is >> causing this HDD activity is this normal ? >> >> Thanks >> Kim >> > >
Guest Unknown Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity Have you done a disk clean recently? Defrag? Virus scanning program running? "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:%234grEom6HHA.2752@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Thanks for replying, I just tried that but it made no difference. > Kim > > "Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote in message > news:oXhBi.7261$924.5332@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net... >> Try turning off indexing. >> "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message >> news:%23FIogFj6HHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >>> Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >>> is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >>> every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup >>> items and services in msconfig and tried that then I tried booting into >>> safe >>> mode but the >>> HDD activity still continues. None of my other machines do this. What is >>> causing this HDD activity is this normal ? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Kim >>> >> >> > >
Guest Plato Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity kim wrote: > > Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. > Hi, my hard disk drive activity light > is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about > every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup Nothing to worry at all about. A computer needs a hard drive to work. When the pc is on it needs to continually see and/or access the hard drive, even for just simple swap/page file access. Again, no need to worry at all... -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest kim Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message news:46d67470$1$98946$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... > kim wrote: >> >> Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >> Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >> is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >> every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup > > Nothing to worry at all about. A computer needs a hard drive to work. > When the pc is on it needs to continually see and/or access the hard > drive, even for just simple swap/page file access. Again, no need to > worry at all... > Ok, thanks for your replies. Unknown, I`ve run defrag, chkdsk and temporarily disabled all starup items and services. Plato, I`ll just leave it then, I just wonder why this machine does it but my 3 previous ones didn`t. XP may be? I`ve just moved up from win98 an XP is new to me. Thanks Kim
Guest Bob I Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity kim wrote: > "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message > news:46d67470$1$98946$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... > >>kim wrote: >> >>>Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >>>Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >>>is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >>>every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup >> >>Nothing to worry at all about. A computer needs a hard drive to work. >>When the pc is on it needs to continually see and/or access the hard >>drive, even for just simple swap/page file access. Again, no need to >>worry at all... >> > > Ok, thanks for your replies. Unknown, I`ve run defrag, chkdsk and > temporarily disabled all starup items and services. > Plato, I`ll just leave it then, I just wonder why this machine does it but > my 3 previous ones didn`t. XP may be? I`ve just moved up from win98 an XP is > new to me. > Thanks > Kim > > Quite possible that Indexing is running, to allow faster searches.
Guest Unknown Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity But, did you run Disk Clean??? "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:%235mWhhu6HHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message > news:46d67470$1$98946$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... >> kim wrote: >>> >>> Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >>> Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >>> is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >>> every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup >> >> Nothing to worry at all about. A computer needs a hard drive to work. >> When the pc is on it needs to continually see and/or access the hard >> drive, even for just simple swap/page file access. Again, no need to >> worry at all... >> > Ok, thanks for your replies. Unknown, I`ve run defrag, chkdsk and > temporarily disabled all starup items and services. > Plato, I`ll just leave it then, I just wonder why this machine does it but > my 3 previous ones didn`t. XP may be? I`ve just moved up from win98 an XP > is new to me. > Thanks > Kim >
Guest Unknown Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Hardisk activity chkdsk is not the same as Clean Disk "kim" <faked@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:%235mWhhu6HHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message > news:46d67470$1$98946$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com... >> kim wrote: >>> >>> Windows XP home sp2 all security updates installed. >>> Hi, my hard disk drive activity light >>> is constantly flickering when the system is idle(flicks on and off about >>> every 1 or 2 seconds). I temporarily disabled all the startup >> >> Nothing to worry at all about. A computer needs a hard drive to work. >> When the pc is on it needs to continually see and/or access the hard >> drive, even for just simple swap/page file access. Again, no need to >> worry at all... >> > Ok, thanks for your replies. Unknown, I`ve run defrag, chkdsk and > temporarily disabled all starup items and services. > Plato, I`ll just leave it then, I just wonder why this machine does it but > my 3 previous ones didn`t. XP may be? I`ve just moved up from win98 an XP > is new to me. > Thanks > Kim >
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