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  1. GENERICANOMALY
    genericAnomaly Win User

    How to prevent invisible Windows process probably Defender from hammering my cyclic drive


    Hi,I'm running Windows 10 on an SSD, and have a large HDD for cold storage of media. The hard drive reads and writes fine, but when it should be idle, it's constantly audibly running. Resmon shows no activity on the drive letter while it is plainly audible, and even un-assigning its drive letter the closest I can do to unmounting doesn't stop it. I've disabled indexing and *tried* to whitelist it in Defender, and, failing that, disable Defender, but the awful thing always comes back.How can I keep Windows from constantly crawling my HDD? Or maybe nuke Defender altogether? I'm this close to s

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    genericAnomaly, Mar 4, 2024
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  2. GNJHA
    GNJha Win User

    Boot Process

    Hi,

    Please suggest me a link that can explain the boot process step by step of ...

    • Windows 7,
    • Windows 8.1,
    • Windows 10,
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 and
    • Windows Server 2012 R2

    With Regards

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    GNJha, Mar 4, 2024
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  3. NICKTOO
    NickToo Win User
    cyclic redundancy error but chkdsk says all drives are OK

    I get a small list of files not backed up every time I run backup in Windows 10.

    The system says it is a cyclic redundancy error problem but I have run Chkdsk and scan on all of the drives, both the ones being backed up and the external hard drive being backed up to. All say no errors found.

    I have also run an Avast Premier scan of everything, again with no problems found.

    For now, I'm just ignoring as the files not backed up are not important ones for me. I'm also planning to buy a new external hard drive and try making a completely new back up set on it to see if that solves the problem.

    Any additional suggestions?
     
    NickToo, Mar 4, 2024
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  4. ACTIONJKSN
    actionjksn Win User

    How to prevent invisible Windows process probably Defender from hammering my cyclic drive

    Windows Defender is hammering my CPU while not scanning.

    I am not even running a scan and Defender is hammering my Core i7 at around 50%. I have shut down my computer and restarted and it's not any better.
     
    actionjksn, Mar 4, 2024
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