Windows 10: WmiPrvSe ext hdd activity

I have an external HDD and from what I can see in the task manager, it is constantly being read or used by some process.

I ran Process Monitor and filtered it down the the drive letter and I see that the process wmiprvse is the only process there.

I did some research on it and found a kind of solution. When go into cmd prompt and type net stop wmimgmt, the spikes in task manager stop. I can even restart them, and the spikes do not come back.

I have ran virus and malware scans on all my HDDs but it still happens.


I have a windows 10 machine as follows:


Below are pictures of what I have found so far.





Thank you

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computer stops recognizing 2 ext HDD

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a major problem creating backups. The only way to bring back recognition of the drives is to reboot. I plugged the two HDDs into another computer and they were fine there. How do I fix this?

 

Cannot see my ext WD 2 TB HDD


Ran into this problem transferring media files from my laptop to the WD ext hdd. Both USB 3.
"My Book", my 2 TB WD ext HDD I cannot be seen on my laptop nor my media mini pc
I found it in Disk Management. It is shown as Disk 2. It has a black streak all the way (full?) It has excess of I,8 TB used and indicates that it is unitialized.


I have attached a snipper capture of the disk management page.

How do I get the ext HDD to function without losing all my media? I am not technically savvy, but can follow step by step advice.

Thanks

 

Printers, ext HDD not recognised

Upgraded to Windows 10, initially, printers & ext HDD for backup all worked OK. Few days later, all stopped working, nothing visible in Devices window. Subsequently downloaded updates KB3081449, KB3081452 on 28 Aug followed by KB3081448 on 29 Aug. Full
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