Re: hard disk activity light flashes at regular intervals

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Hi,

Possibly indexing or other background processes such as automatic updates
are running - there are many possible products that can cause this kind of
activity, and Norton's software is definitely one of them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

<matchwear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1135476471.062971.125340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Recently I noticed my DELL computer disk activity light is flashing on
> and off at a regular 2 second rate and the drive read noise is
> accompanying it. Do I have a software or hardware problem? I have
> scanned for viruses, adware, defragged, etc. using Norton Systemworks.
> It is sill "beating". Any ideas?
>


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