Constant Hard drive activity?

[K&JG]

The H/D LED flashes about once every second 24/7 on my computer, (XP Home
Edition) Otherwise all seems OK. I have tried stopping all start up programs
via msconfig. I have booted to safe mode. The LED still flashes. There are
no viruses that Symantec Antivirus can find. The only clue I can find is the
files in "C:\windows\system32\whem\repository\FS" folder are accessed
continually.

Thank you, Ken

 

[RonK]

You must have Auto play enabled. The computer is just polling the cdrom
drive(s). That's normal.

 

[K&JG]

Thank you for the interest, I have auto stopped on both CD drives
(properties) and also from tweak-ui have auto play unchecked. The HD LED
still continues to flash

 

[Alex Nichol]

The H/D LED flashes about once every second 24/7 on my computer, (XP Home
Edition) Otherwise all seems OK. I have tried stopping all start up programs
via msconfig. I have booted to safe mode

THe HD light is more strictly an 'IDE Controller light' and flashes each
time there is any action on the controllers - most probably the system
checking every second or so to see if the disk in the CD drive has been
changed

 

[K&JG]

This brings up the next 2 questions. I have a similar computer beside this
one that does not flash the HD LED. I do not recall it doing so when I first
set it up. How would I stop the checking every second? Thank You, Ken