Dell Latitude Hard disk making noisy even if no process being used

[lipery]

Hi,

I have a Dell Latitude and it is 3 years old. Recently, the hard disk is making this noise as if a process is happening even if I am not doing anything with the laptop. I am not even connected to the internet. Has anyone encountered this problem? How do I trouble-shoot?

Cheers!

 

[Techy]

something is obviously doing something.

i'd open task manager, click on the "processes tab" sort by CPU usage, sit back and look for CPU utilisation fluctuation when you hear the hard disk working. make a note of the process(es) and google them to find out what they are.

J

 

[lipery]

hi,

thanks for the reply. i actually also have the task manager open earlier to check this and looked at the System Idle Process %. It was 95% and the CPU usage is fluctuating between 0-3%. At the time, I have Excel and Word open but was not editing nor reading nor scrolling. i thought of checking for hard disk integrity.

cheers..

 

[Tidus]

System Idle process is normally on 95%, it is always high when the system is idling, it goes lower when things are running. Watch out, there's been a spate of Dell laptops actually catching fire, after one caught fire at a Japanese conference, then people started saying, "My Dell laptop's caught fire!"

Google for it!