Windows 10: TIL Windows will spin down any other hard disks you may have in your laptop if you're on...

I was watching Netflix on battery when I heard the hard disk make the sound it does when it spins down. Neat.

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My hard disk keep on spinning after upgrade to Windows 10

Hi Peter,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query.

Let’s try running Disk defragmenter and check if this helps in resolving the issue. Follow the below method.

Method 1.

• 
  Type defragment on the Windows search bar and select
  Defragment and Optimize Drives.
  
• 
  Under status, select the disk you want to defragment.
  
• To determine if the disk needs to be defragmented or not, click on optimize button. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

If the issue still persist, try the below method.

Method 2.

I suggest you to run check disk on the hard drive to see if there are any corruptions.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Press Windows key + X, click Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  In the Command Prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
  
  chkdsk /f
  

Disclaimer: While performing check disk on the hard drive, if any bad sectors are found then check disk will try to repair that sector. Any data available on a bad sector might be lost.

Once Check Disk completes, boot the computer and then check.

Please get back to us with the status, we will be glad to help you.

 

Laptop hard drive upgrade

To replace a hard drive on a laptop is a little more troublesome than a desktop. 1st as most people here suggest you will need some sort of a backup disk just in case. Also be sure when buying the new Hard Disk is compatible with your model. And i would strongly suggest you install a new system and start from scratch because there are far too many problems that can occur when transferring system files.

 

Laptop hard drive upgrade

If you ghost the OS from disk to disk with the same system it should work fine. Thing is you have to GHOST the disk, including the MBR or it won't be bootable. Any other normal laptop drive should work as long as the connections the same.



If you cannot make a backup install CD, you'll likely need to locate a windows install CD, unless you can ghost the drive. Thats pretty much your only options atm.