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My hard drive keeps on working full-time even when I've been doing nothing for a long time! At first I thought it was some malware, and it could be, because it made my hard drive collapse. So the question is, what could make the hard drive work without stopping so long?

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There's tools that tell you this

Go to task manager, go to 'performance', click on the open resource manager link at the bottom, and pick the 'disk' tab

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There you can sort through which processes are doing disk activity, and which files are being written to.

if disk load is high, but read/write speeds are low, that might be an indication that there's a lot of read failures, and your drive is slowly failing.

If you do think its failing, I'd suggest checking SMART status -I'm a fan of gsmartctrl (and I have a walkthrough on how to use it in another answer) but there's other tools that work. However that and doing a last ditch backup of a failing drive are outside the scope of the question.

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