Hi,

The Hard Drive LED light on my Sony Vaio keeps blinking EVERY SECOND.
When it's really quiet I can hear it too, it's constantly writing.
Constantly.

I did my research - read all the threads on the net and so far I have
disabled:

Windows index
Windows defender
Windows search
Superfetch
System Restore
Readyboost
Defragmenter
I have uninstalled google desktop.

The system is totally virus and spyware free, and the anti-virus is not
scanning (schedule scan disabled). All Vista updates are installed.

Nothing has helped. I've run out of things to disable.

What now??? Please help!!!

I'm running Vista Business SP1, Dual Core 2.2 Ghz, 3 Gb RAM.


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No, no screensaver...



Rick Rogers;1164950 Wrote:

Why do you want to disable everything that is designed to make your
system
operate more efficiently?


How is CONSTANT hard drive access/writing efficient? I'm on the road a
lot and I need battery time. It's driving me crazy that my HD is
spinning non-stop even when I'm only typing in notepad for two hours.


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nimic1234 wrote:


No, no screensaver...



Rick Rogers;1164950 Wrote:

Why do you want to disable everything that is designed to make your
system
operate more efficiently?


How is CONSTANT hard drive access/writing efficient? I'm on the road a
lot and I need battery time. It's driving me crazy that my HD is
spinning non-stop even when I'm only typing in notepad for two hours.

Maybe it's trying to figure out why you're using Notepad and not
something better.

I hope you're remembering to stop and save now and then. It won't do
it for you.

Very constructive answer, Mike, thank you so much.


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A hd constantly 'working' can also be a sign of a failing disk.
Asertain the make of hd, visit that manufacturers web site & create/use
their bootable disk checking utility.
If you dont know the make, try seagate seatools

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Very constructive answer, Mike, thank you so much.


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DL;1165327 Wrote:
A hd constantly 'working' can also be a sign of a failing disk.


Could be indeed but the machine hasn't been in use for more than 60
days and it's working smoothly so I doubt it. I have used a disk doctor
utility and it tells me the disk is running fine.


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Rick Rogers;1165424 Wrote:

Sounds like something is monitoring for activity during hibernation.

What do you mean by that? Why would a keyboard or mouse "monitor during
hibernation"? I'm not sure I understand. Anyway, not wireless mouse or
keyboard, only the native stuff the laptop came with. And the HD
trashing is happening when the laptop is idle AND when I'm working on it
- it never stops.

many of the functions you've
disabled in the name of expediency are the ones designed to help your
system

I understood you but I'm trying to figure out how to stop my HD from
working 24/7 right now :-) I deactivated all these because it is
suggested in many threads about this problem. I'll probably reactivate
many (Defender, Superfetch etc) once I have this figured out.


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"nimic1234" wrote in message
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DL;1165327 Wrote:
A hd constantly 'working' can also be a sign of a failing disk.


Could be indeed but the machine hasn't been in use for more than 60
days and it's working smoothly so I doubt it. I have used a disk doctor
utility and it tells me the disk is running fine.


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What anti-virus and anti-malware programs are you running?


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Rick Rogers;1165424 Wrote:

Sounds like something is monitoring for activity during hibernation.

What do you mean by that? Why would a keyboard or mouse "monitor during
hibernation"? I'm not sure I understand. Anyway, not wireless mouse or
keyboard, only the native stuff the laptop came with. And the HD
trashing is happening when the laptop is idle AND when I'm working on it
- it never stops.

many of the functions you've
disabled in the name of expediency are the ones designed to help your
system

I understood you but I'm trying to figure out how to stop my HD from
working 24/7 right now :-) I deactivated all these because it is
suggested in many threads about this problem. I'll probably reactivate
many (Defender, Superfetch etc) once I have this figured out.


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As long as it's not in a power save mode, a hard drive is always
spinning when the PC is on. The behaviour you describe is
perfectly normal. The brief intermittent disk accesses will have
negligible impact on battery discharge. I've seen this behaviour
in every PC I've used, since Win95. If you want to save battery
power, make sure the WiFi hardware is turned off while you're
not using it. Most laptops have a physical switch to do this.
Also, turning down the screen brightness will help.

Ian D;1165659 Wrote:

As long as it's not in a power save mode, a hard drive is always
spinning when the PC is on.

I don't know about that. My previous (Toshiba) laptop under XP was
certainly not doing it.

Furthermore, on my current laptop, running on battery and IN POWER
SAVER MODE, well get this, it gets WORSE: the HD LED light stops
blinking and it stays ON ALL THE TIME. I've actually
just realised this thanks to your post. Could it be then that the power
options are somehow at fault here?


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