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Dougla
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 Troubleshooting and Support for hard drive
HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drive repair, Hard drives
What would you suspect when the hard drive access light turns on and off with no application running?

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ASKED: October 27, 2010  6:45 PM
UPDATED: October 30, 2010  2:05 AM
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background processes? Network activity mnitoring systems triggering something?

Spadasoe
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Hi Dougla.

I would suspect that some process running in background is accessing the disk.

Depending on the OS (which you didn’t mention), you may run a tool to see a list of the running processes. On Windows that would be the task manager, and on Linux one option could be the top tool.

carlosdl
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I would suspect that my system is running normally.

I think nearly all PCs I’ve worked on in at least the past decade have had system processes that periodically accessed disk. Windows networking is definitely a common example. Various TCP/IP-related processes can also cause access, e.g., a software firewall app might check its database or log an incoming packet.

Screensavers, schedulers, lots of things might wake up at intervals.

Tom

TomLiotta
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