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I'm running Windows 8.1 and recently added a secondary internal WD Green hard drive to my rig.

The HDD spins up at random intervals which is very noticeable because it is the noisiest part of the PC.

I tried to figure out the reason but haven't come up with anything:

  • Indexing is disabled for the drive
  • Pagefiles aren't on the drive
  • Monitoring with ResMon reveals no writes to the drive when it powers up

Any ideas what is causing this?

EDIT: Not a duplicat of Why is Windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD? because there the problem was solved via ResMon. This does not work for my problem.

EDIT 2: It seems like Windows' Automatic Maintenance (which can't be switched off) does not show up in ResMon, so this might be the culprit.

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Here is a link to disable windows automatic maintenance to test to see if that is the answer. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/34374-automatic-maintenance-enable-disable-windows-8-a.html

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