Vista - HD Light Continually Lights Up

Yikes ... I need some help. I installed Vista Ultimate x64 a couple of days agon a new computer and ever since then the hard disk light is continually flickering. I've done some searching but haven't come up with any resolution.

I've run perfmon and watched the "writes" and here are the files involved:

C:\$LogFile (NTFS Volume Log)
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\ntuser.dat.LOG1
C:\$Mft (NTFS Master File Table)
C:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM.LOG1

as well as a few other ...

The HD access is each and every 5 seconds or so.

It's been running like this now for about 20 hour straight -- any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

thanks.

I am having the same problem as well in Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32bit.

Your system is still indexing the drive when the system is otherwise idle.
This can take several days.
"jguthart" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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I don't think Indexing is it. It's been going on now for about three days. I go to Indexing and it says Indexing Complete.

It's still chugging away -- maybe it has something to do with prefetch?

thanks for all and any advice.

Hi,
Could be Windows defender running.
Try disabling it.
Check processes running with Task manager and cpu activity.
Disable antivirus.
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Graham....



"jguthart" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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I've got Defender disable and McAfee virus scan disable and I've still got the drive light flashing on -- Uggghh!



I'm wondering how long I should let this go ... another week? Will it fry my hd? What is making it do this?

thanks.

What motherboard? Older models have ACPI, USB, SATA compatibility issues
with Vista.
Michael
"jguthart" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the quick response -- the MB is a EVGA 780i SLI

..com...
Have you actually disabled indexing.
?
right click drive, select properties and disable.
Graham...

I am having the same problem he has ., I have disabled all service indexing and so forth and also used an older drive that was not Sata and still doing the same thing. I have also Burned out 2 HD lights from this already. but I also used a Hard Drive editor and did not find anything to do with this directory C:\$LogFile , C:\$Mft . and the Editor used was Captain Nemo Pro V4.20 at http://www.runtime.org if the 2 Directory did exist they would be on the partition they are not there even with a partition Editor