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Inspiron 3470 Hard drive light on-system slow
When ever I use my desktop for the first time that day, you can hear the hard drive working and the light is solid on. This will continue as long as 30 minutes most times. The computer is slow or even unable to operate when this is going on. I often leave it on and walk away coming back later in the day when I can use it. This is obviously not the way I want to be able to use my computer.
I have used all the optimizing programs, clearing cookies, cache etc. I have even gone to settings and turned off updates. None of this works.
WIN 10, connected directly to router with Ethernet.
Any ideas?
Ken
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Posted April 27th, 2021 10:00
Turn indexing off and disable the service.
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Posted April 27th, 2021 12:00
@mr amx - Also try disabling Fast Startup in Win 10:
- Boot to desktop
- Open: Power & Sleep screen
- Click: Additional power settings
- Click: Change what power buttons do
- Click: Change settings that are currently unavailable
- UNcheck: Turn on fast startup
- Click: Save changes
- Do full power-off shutdown, not just a restart
- Boot
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Posted April 28th, 2021 15:00
F12 at boot did nothing. Computer just continued it's regular loading.
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Posted April 28th, 2021 15:00
Computer loads faster, but hard drive continues work constantly while I attempt to use my computer. The browser loads slowly, but I find I can at least use my computer.
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Posted April 28th, 2021 16:00
@mr amx You have to start tapping F12 as soon as you power PC on to open the boot menu where you can find the option to run diagnostics. If you're not quick enough, it will just boot normally into Windows.
If that still doesn't work, go here and run the Full Test diagnostics on line.
Also, when at the desktop, open Task Manager and on its Processes tab, click the Disk column header to arrange the list in order of most to least disk usage. What process is identified there as using lots of disk time?
What apps are loading in the background at every boot? Look on the Startup tab in Task manager.
When was last time you scanned thoroughly for malware?
JOcean
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Posted April 26th, 2021 19:00
Run diagnostics (F12 at boot) and watch for any drive errors.
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