HDD LED Flashing

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I added a 2nd SATA HDD yesterday and everything appears to be working
normally but the HDD LED is flashing frequently. System has 2 SATA drives
and 1 ATA drive.
Any Ideas why this is happening?
 
The harddrive is being accessed. Either for indexing, virus scanning or
system monitoring purposes.
 
The harddrive is being accessed. Either for indexing, virus scanning
or system monitoring purposes.
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I'm aware that the HDD LED means it is being accessed. I added no
programs or any changes other than adding a new SATA HDD. I looked at all
active programs using system internals which didn't reveal any programs
or interrupts corresponding to the constant less than 1 seconf flashes. I
also disabled the antivirus and firewall, ran antivirus and spyware
scans.
I have seen similiar flashes on PC's before but I don't know why it
astarted as soon as I formatted the new hardrive.
My concern is it could be some defect in the HDD electronics.
Guess I will search for some info on google. Thanks for responding.
 
tango said:
I'm aware that the HDD LED means it is being accessed. I added no
programs or any changes other than adding a new SATA HDD. I looked at all
active programs using system internals which didn't reveal any programs
or interrupts corresponding to the constant less than 1 seconf flashes. I
also disabled the antivirus and firewall, ran antivirus and spyware
scans.
I have seen similiar flashes on PC's before but I don't know why it
astarted as soon as I formatted the new hardrive.
My concern is it could be some defect in the HDD electronics.
Guess I will search for some info on google. Thanks for responding.
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In that case it could be that the system is now seeing the SATA drive as
removable, and checking it for changes.
 
In that case it could be that the system is now seeing the SATA drive
as removable, and checking it for changes.
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No, it is listed as local drive. I may remove the power and cable to the
other Drive and see what happens, but it has the OS, so I don't know if
that will prove anything.
 
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