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


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:23:25 -0500, "Keith Curme"
> wrote:

>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
>

[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" > wrote in message
...
> 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
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:23:25 -0500, "Keith Curme"
> > wrote:
>
> >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,

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


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:02:10 -0500, "Keith Curme" >
wrote:

>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" > wrote in message
...
>> 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
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:23:25 -0500, "Keith Curme"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >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
>> >
>>
>