Intermediate running of external USB drives

[Don W.]

When the desktop is idle it continually seems to be "checking" the external,
USB harddrives about every 20 minutes. Can this be stopped.

I leave the desktop running 24/7 and it bothers me when the USB drives run
for a few secons every 15-20 minutes.

Any ideas?

Don

 

[Uwe Sieber]

When the desktop is idle it continually seems to be "checking" the external,
USB harddrives about every 20 minutes. Can this be stopped.

I leave the desktop running 24/7 and it bothers me when the USB drives run
for a few secons every 15-20 minutes.

Get Sysinternals FileMon:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

Check an external drive it the 'Volumes' menu and
wait until the drive is accessed. Then you should see
which process it is.


Uwe

 

[Patrick Keenan]

When the desktop is idle it continually seems to be "checking" the external,
USB harddrives about every 20 minutes. Can this be stopped.

I leave the desktop running 24/7 and it bothers me when the USB drives run
for a few secons every 15-20 minutes.

Any ideas?

Don

You may find that this is due to the Indexer or a virus scanner.

HTH
-pk