Hdd led constantly flashing

[Melectricus]

I have a shuttle xpc nforce2 that I swapped some parts around and installled a new 200gb Hdd cloned via ghost from an old 120gb. All the parts worked fine in the old computers. Moved the old parts to my "new" spare parts computer.
Replaced an xp2000/266 with an xp2800/333.(memory is 512 and 256 pc3200 existing)
Replaced an old geforce3 with a relatively new ATI 9600
Cloned an old 120mb to a NEW WD200gb (fat 32)

The problem is now the HDD is constantly being accessed - hence led flashing.

Does anyone know where I should start trouble shooting?
Thanx

 

[Melectricus]

Please, any help?

 

[L00PY]

Normal advice is to run a virus and spyware scan. Double check your firewall settings too.

Assuming you're running some modern variant of Windows try using the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del, T). Goto the Processes tab, and then View Menu > Select Columns... Add the assorted I/O values. Go back to the View Menu > Update Speed > High. The process that's causing the HD to flash should be the one with the constantly rising I/O accesses. It'll be easiest to hunt down if you have as little open as possible.

 

[Jeff7]

My hard drive constantly has activity too - blinks about every second.
LSASS.EXE, services.exe, a UPS service, one of the svchost.exe files...a few of them keep making little writes or reads to the drive. I assume it's normal. But that's only small amounts of data being written - a few hundred bytes at a time.
But do always be sure to do virus and spyware scans.

 

[ggjb]

Unfortunately Windows XP has a ton of services running that you really may not need.

 

[Melectricus]

I ran scans with norton and spybot before I cloned and it was free. I did not have the access problem before the clone and ATI install, but did afterwards.

The clone went smoothy and I did a fdisk and format before the clone on the new drive. After the clone I switched to vga and removed Nvidia drivers and the install of the ATI went fine. But, I didn't run a scan immediately after.

I'm at work since forever and haven't had a chance to check processes back at home. I've never had a process problem on my other computers, but I'll check it out.

Thanks, I really appreciate the info. I was worried about a hardware problem but it appears maybe something else?