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I recently added large TB hard drive (F:), seems to be working fine except it makes a lot of noise when the drive head seeks any where. The annoying thing it seems to be every 5 -> 15 seconds continually. Trying to figure out what is causing it in order to stop it.

This is where I'm stuck. Tried running Process Monitor and watching for file activity, nothing. Searching some comments about disable searching/indexing. Stopping Windows search and indexing, no change.

Any ideas?

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  • Which Windows version?
    – harrymc
    Commented Mar 23 at 14:15
  • Seems like you're seeing the Windows disk-status request. Try in Power Options > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings, under Hard disk > Turn off hard disk after to set a time period of a few minutes. If you have this setting, then after the specified amount of idle time the disk will sleep.
    – harrymc
    Commented Mar 23 at 14:27
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    @John - Given the similarities between Windows 10 and Windows 11 I am not sure how upgrading to Windows 11 would solve the author’s problem.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 23 at 14:33
  • @harrymc To be a bit more specific than the title of my post.. Windows is: Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.4170)
    – Dano
    Commented Mar 24 at 17:49
  • @harrymc Also tried turning the drive off after 1 minute, as the first step, then "Wrte Cache off. Didn't help appears something is pinging f: My temp is "c:\tmp" and/or c:\temp. Searched the registry for F:\, found nothing and in windoZe file defender/anti-malware i excluded f:\.
    – Dano
    Commented Mar 24 at 18:11

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