Does the Hard Drive access ever stop in Vista?

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I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However, the
disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.

This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right under
the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual range is
annoying.

XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long periods
on a similar laptop.

Comments or solutions appreciated...
 
terca novie said:
suggestion 1) Use the much superior XP, vista is a power hungry badly
designed OS.
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Translation: terca novie who is really measekite, has no idea how to use
Vista

suggestion 2) put a sticker or tape on the led so you will hide or dim it
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Translation: put a sticker on your head and walk down the middle of the road

suggestion 3) open task manager> performance > resource monitor and find
what the heck is accessing the disk all the time and disable it.
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Translation: measekite doesn't know how to do this task.

have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long
 
I think this regular polling is something to do with the automatic detection
of CD/DVD insertion.

The only thing is, I'm not sure how to fix it.

Is your CD/DVD drive on the same IDE interface as your hard disk? I always
keep them on separate interfaces and have never had this problem. But
something is sitting there in the back of my mind - perhaps I've read about
this problem in a computer mag, or something.

Also, I think you can switch off Autoplay-on-insertion altogether. Perhaps
this will stop the polling.

SteveT
 
Steve Thackery said:
I think this regular polling is something to do with the automatic
detection of CD/DVD insertion.

The only thing is, I'm not sure how to fix it.

Is your CD/DVD drive on the same IDE interface as your hard disk? I
always keep them on separate interfaces and have never had this
problem. But something is sitting there in the back of my mind -
perhaps I've read about this problem in a computer mag, or something.

Also, I think you can switch off Autoplay-on-insertion altogether.
Perhaps this will stop the polling.

SteveT
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Certainly true for some Dell desktops but then it's not visible all the
time so the once a second blip is not a problem.

Tom
 
Telstar said:
I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However,
the disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.

This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right
under the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual
range is annoying.

XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long
periods on a similar laptop.

Comments or solutions appreciated...
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Duct tape is certainly a workaround or try moving the computer case
itself. A better approach is to investigate why the hard disk is
thrashing. How much free memory do you have, both in RAM and on the hard
disk?

Bill
 
Vista newbie. My HDD light also flickers without ceasing, at roughly 1Hz. I
do run Indexing, but this also happened when I had Indexing turned off.

RAM (>1Gig) and HDD space (26 GB) are not a problem. I too would appreciate
knowing why this is happening.
 
I have the same problem once a second with both machines on Xp. Found this
site searching Google for solutions, tried a lot of recommendations, nothing
worked. My last hard drive is solid state for protection of excessive HD
access wearing mechanicals out, but could worry about 100,000 write cycles.
 
I have the same problem once a second with both machines on Xp. Found this
site searching Google for solutions, tried a lot of recommendations, nothing
worked. My last hard drive is solid state for protection of excessive HD
access wearing mechanicals out, but could worry about 100,000 write cycles.
 
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