Strange Disc Activity

[David E. Ross]

Two physical hard drives: C and D.

Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

Power settings:
Turn off monitor after 20 min
Turn off hard discs after 25 min
Sytem standby after 30 min

After 20 min, the monitor does indeed go off.

If I'm surfing the Web and doing nothing else, my D drive is not used.
It shuts off after about 25 min.

If I walk away and then pass my office about 20-25 minutes later, I hear
a drive whirring faster and faster. I don't know if it's the C or D
drive (or both).

Not only is this annoying; it also concerns me. Just when my PC should
be ready to do nothing, it's doing an awful lot.

Why?

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[Gary S. Terhune]

XP likes to do some things when you aren't using it -- like index files. Try
turning it off and see what happens. Run compmgmt.msc, click on Services and
Applications, locate the Indexing service and turn it off.

Other apps and services may also do the same thing -- wait until you're not
using the disk to perform chores.