M4400 HD light constantly blinking.

I seem to always have some sort of activity with this light, even when I'm not accessing the HD or when I keep the computer idle. Does anyone have any clue why this is happening?

Autoplay is disabled, nothing is downloading and only ESET is on but temporarily has features disabled.

 

Bit of a long-shot, but do you have Google Chrome installed? I find that does an awful lot of background disk activity, e.g. when using Gmail.

 

I can confirm that for my M4400 running WinXP. HDD Led blinks at about 1 Hz plus HDD does not power off when the M4400 is 'idle'. Already tried killing all processes I could kill, didn't work.

 

I do have google chrome, but Im not using it. Im using FF...should I uninstall chrome? I dont really need it...

 

Doesn't Vista defrag in the background by default?

 

Is search indexer running maybe?

 

Indexing service. It'll be working for the first few days/weeks like that.. Until indexing is complete..
You can disable indexing, but that takes away one of Vista's USPs..

 

My E6500 blinks the drive light about once a second, it seems to stop a few seconds after I remove the optical drive ... does that stop yours?

 

Nope =/

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I've just upgraded from the Intel Matrix Storage console/drivers 8.2.x that were supplied by Dell to 8.5.x direct from Intel, this has stopped the drive light from constantly flashing when there is apparenty no actual hard drive activity.

There *is* still more background disk activity than I'd like on the system, but I hope I can calm that down by removing more un-necessary servcies.