Drive back-up enable/disable?
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Hi,
Is there a way to find out if I have drive back-up enabled (or similar) in W8.1 ? I have 3 drives, my primary C which is 500GB SSD, D is a 2TB old skool HDD and E is my old 256 GB SSD before I upgraded it. I don't actually use D or E for anything.
However around a year ago my system died, wouldn't boot up and I had to restore from a previously saved point. I wasn't even aware that I had back-ups enabled as I normally don't bother with that stuff. Anyway, by some miracle it actually worked and my PC worked again, but I noticed a bit of a mess in my file system in places.
Since then I've been having periodic problems with hearing one of the drives making clicking and clunk noises, which I assumed was my C drive on its way out, but this doesn't really make sense as that's an SSD. Surely couldn't be my D drive as that's not in use.
Anyway, Crystal Disk app says all 3 drives are in good health so no help there, but I have task manager open on the performance tab, have my D drive selected and every time I hear my system clicking I see the 'read' value spike up, so my D drive is doing stuff when it shouldn't be. It's a 2TB drive and shows 1.78 TB available of 1.81TB. When I click the drive there are no files showing on it, not even any 'hidden' ones. Can anyone make sense of this and is there a way to disconnect it to stop it from making a din, short of taking the case off and ripping the f
ker out? It won't even let me format it, because it says it is "currently in use".
Anything I should be looking for in control panel? It's doing my nut in !
What is it even "reading" when there's nothing on it ???????
Is there a way to find out if I have drive back-up enabled (or similar) in W8.1 ? I have 3 drives, my primary C which is 500GB SSD, D is a 2TB old skool HDD and E is my old 256 GB SSD before I upgraded it. I don't actually use D or E for anything.
However around a year ago my system died, wouldn't boot up and I had to restore from a previously saved point. I wasn't even aware that I had back-ups enabled as I normally don't bother with that stuff. Anyway, by some miracle it actually worked and my PC worked again, but I noticed a bit of a mess in my file system in places.
Since then I've been having periodic problems with hearing one of the drives making clicking and clunk noises, which I assumed was my C drive on its way out, but this doesn't really make sense as that's an SSD. Surely couldn't be my D drive as that's not in use.
Anyway, Crystal Disk app says all 3 drives are in good health so no help there, but I have task manager open on the performance tab, have my D drive selected and every time I hear my system clicking I see the 'read' value spike up, so my D drive is doing stuff when it shouldn't be. It's a 2TB drive and shows 1.78 TB available of 1.81TB. When I click the drive there are no files showing on it, not even any 'hidden' ones. Can anyone make sense of this and is there a way to disconnect it to stop it from making a din, short of taking the case off and ripping the f
ker out? It won't even let me format it, because it says it is "currently in use".Anything I should be looking for in control panel? It's doing my nut in !
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