Hard Disk Activity Light Remains On

[Keith Curme]

Has anyone had a problem with the hard disk activity light remaining on? It
does'nt flicker or turn off at all. It started yesterday for no known
reason. I ran a scan disc and everything is fine. The computer runs fine
and there isn't any other problems, but this thing with the light is driving
me nuts! Should I try a system restore? Any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks,
Keith

 

[roger]

Hi Keith,

Do you have the Indexing service turned on?
That could explain it.

To see what programs/services are accessing your drives, try File
Monitor
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml
this will give you a lot of information, try to filter the things you
know about that are safe.

Good luck

 

[Keith Curme]

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the response!
I checked the Indexing Service and that is not running.
I'm going to try File Monitor and see what it tells me.
Thanks for the link.

Keith

 

[roger]

Hi Keith,

You can also try enabling the I/O read/write columns in your task
manager to see what program is writing to the disk.

Good luck