I keep hearing my hard drive being accessed, every few seconds/minutes itll access

Nocturnal

Lifer
Jan 8, 2002
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its the same sound pattern everytime. this is the first time ive ever heard this. does anyone have any idea what this might be?
 

amnesiac

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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Could be Auto Insert Notification on your CDROM drive. It would happen to me all the time with Win98 and when I turned AIN off it stopped.