I did not believe that a disc was in the drive, I merely included all steps, just in case.
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Mendy, actually, GORT thought that it was common knowledge and that someone here would comment something like: "Oh, yes, I forgot about that!". I know my HDD stays silent when I watch movies or listen to music from my DVD Drive. You seem very insistent that this will fix the issue, and one can only conclude its because you either like making extremely vague statements that look cool if they're right, or because you recently had this exact issue that took you forever to solve and this was the problem.Īlso any articles you have that can point to the fact that the disk activity light is used when reading from a CD or that there's any HDD activity related to the CD would be nice. I'm one of those always looking to learn something new, but can you please explain your thought process and reasoning as to a) why you think there's an optical drive even (although it is likely) b) why you think there's a disk in the drive (not as likely) and c) why you think there's a media player application running? If you have a spinning hard drive in that system, replacing that drive with a SSD will make that system flat out fly. If the disk activity returns to normal then consider how/why the system became infected (I would still nuke and pave once you find the source/infection vector of the issue, yes I'm one of those people). If there is something there that looks like malware it will nuke it. Since you have a clone of the hard drive, try running combofix (from the bleeping computers web site only) on this system. There are some malware that have been known to hide in the bios, but they are rare. I assume that you powered off the computer when you swapped the hard drive so there shouldn't be anything resident in memory to purge in RAM.
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I might check out Michael C's application to see if you can identify the culprit. One might wonder if the conditions that allowed the user to become infected in the first place, allowed the downloader to come back? (thinking user may be local admin or UAC is disabled and the vector of the first infection allowed the critter to come back.) The other option is one of the softwares you reloaded after the nuke and pave step is causing this strange disk activity.
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This is interesting, " The PC ran OK for a day, but is back to the problem".
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The third step was to do a fresh install of windows 7 on a new hard drive. Just to be clear the (second) step was to clone the hard drive with the same results.