is there any way to look up what my hard drive is doing on Windows 10? it sounds like it's repeatedly trying to spin up and failing. It's probably fine but I'm really wondering what's actually happening with it because I don't think I'm actually using it right now?

@noiob Task Manager will let you view processes by disk i/o, which might be a start?

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@ghost_bird it doesn't seem to let me track only one disk and there's a bunch of I/O on my SSD which I'm not concerned about

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@noiob Ah, OK. Seems like even Resource Monitor doesn’t do that, now I test. I guess you could order Disk Activity by file and look for the drive letter?

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