Disk Activity on Windows 7

[owensdj]

The past few days I've been seeing more disk activity than before on Win7 Pro 64-bit. The hard drive LED blinks every second, even in Safe Mode. Scans with Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Antimalware didn't turn up any infections. Any ideas?

 

[corkyg]

Most of that is probably Indexing service.

 

[owensdj]

corkyg, thanks for the reply. I don't think it's the Indexing service. I went through the process of completely disabling the indexing service(Windows Search) but it's still accessing the hard drive every second.

 

[rgallant]

try unplugging your sata dvd player from the mb if you have one.
-my hd ping went away when I went to a external dvd drive to free up a intel sata port.

 

[owensdj]

rgallant, interesting. I do have an SATA DVD player.

 

[owensdj]

I found out that the once a second HD LED flash was in fact related to the DVD drive as rgallant suggested. If I disable the DVD in Device Manager it stops doing that. Anything other than disabling or unplugging the DVD drive that I could try? It only started doing this recently.

 

[ncage]

The past few days I've been seeing more disk activity than before on Win7 Pro 64-bit. The hard drive LED blinks every second, even in Safe Mode. Scans with Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Antimalware didn't turn up any infections. Any ideas?

Rather than just starting to disable random things why not just figure out what is causing the disk access. Go to the disk tab in resource monitor and see what process his hogging the disk:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/use-resource-monitor-to-monitor-storage-performance/4233

 

[steelodon]

I am experiencing the same issue. I'm starting to think it is either causing slow performance and/or for my freezing media applications. Is this possible?