I recently rebuilt this PC and reinstalled windows on it and a new interesting problem has cropped up. Something is accessing the hard drive and I can’t figure out what it is.
When the PC is idle and nothing is running I can hear the HD being accessed and the HD light flashes. This is not a huge issue but I’ve never had a PC do this before and I’d rather not shorten the life of the HD because something is doing something that it shouldn’t be.
I have windows indexing turned off. It does it when the Anti virus is running and when its not. System restore is also off. I’ve disabled just about everything I can find that does not need to be running and it is still doing it. Its almost as though there is some windows service that is accessing the hard drive and doing something.
Its not like its writing a lot of data but you can hear it every few seconds doing something. Does anyone know of a way I can figure out what is accessing the hard drive so I can disable it? I have several other PCs here and none of them have this problem.
Also the writes are not in any particular pattern. Its just random reads / writes or something. Anyone have any thoughts on this?