Storage drive running randomly

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I’ve had a wd drive for about a year now, and only used it to store music/ pictures/ videos & stuff.

Before, it would only start spinning up when i wanted to use a file stored on the drive, but now it’s starting up whenever it feels like it. Browsing the net will set it off constantly, forcing the webpage/youtube vid to freeze till it’s finished booting up, and even with no programs running it’ll turn on and off whenever it pleases.

I don’t know if I accidently messed up something in the bios, or if I have a virus or what.

Any help would be appreciated.

Also youtube vids are loading super slow now, not sure what’s up with that, but anything past 240p will buffer every 3 seconds.

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Be sure that no program is running in the background that might be using the hard drive. To know if your hard drive has any hardware problems, you can try doing a DLG test. Check the link below for the steps.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/940

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The test showed all hard drives running fine =D

I’m thinking maybe it’s a virus, although my scans turned out clean, so I’m at a loss.

youtube is working fine again, not sure what was up with that.

how do I check if a program is using my hard drive? I’m not seeing that kind of info in task manager

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Try turning off Indexing for that drive and see if that changes anything.  You find Indexing under Properties of the drive.

5

It still seems to be running when it shouldn’t =(

Thanks for the help so far though

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Hi, Is it possible that your anti-virus is accessing the drive?