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Crumpet46

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Hiya guys. Ive jusg built my new PC and of the things I wanted was silent operation.

Everything is great apart from my completely empty 1tb HDD. Windows, drivers and all programs are on my SSD.

Every so often the HDD fires up and I cant work out why. The system process shows nothing going on with D: at all. Ive made it less annoying by turning its shutdown timer to 1min in power options but its a bandage not a fix.

Any ideas or idea how to track it?
 
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mamasan2000
https://superuser.com/questions/560805/why-is-windows-constantly-spinning-up-my-secondary-hdd

Pagefile settings is at: Win-key+Pause Break, Advanced system settings, Advanced tab, top option (Visual effects etc), go to Advanced here too, under Virtual Memory click on Change. Untick 'automatically...'
See if it says D: drive is system managed. Whatever is system managed has the pagefile.
If you wanna set the size yourself (Custom Size), 2-4 gigs is usually enough.
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zxrdude

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I didnt set system restore to the hdd and originally the HDD wasnt found until I went in to disk management and set it up as a new volume. Not sure if that would indirectly answer that question.

How do I find out where my pagefile is?

Really appreciate your time, unfortunately your not talking to an experienced user
 
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https://superuser.com/questions/560805/why-is-windows-constantly-spinning-up-my-secondary-hdd

Pagefile settings is at: Win-key+Pause Break, Advanced system settings, Advanced tab, top option (Visual effects etc), go to Advanced here too, under Virtual Memory click on Change. Untick 'automatically...'
See if it says D: drive is system managed. Whatever is system managed has the pagefile.
If you wanna set the size yourself (Custom Size), 2-4 gigs is usually enough.
 
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zxrdude

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Lol mega answer. Unfortunately C (SSD) is system managed with D showing as 'none'
 
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