Hard drive light.

[ron350]

  Is windows 10 or Malwarebytes doing a large update today?
I am kind of scared my hard drive light been on solod for over 4 hours.

[Corrine]

Hi, Ron.  The last update to Windows 10 was March 10th. You can check your Windows Update folder and compare the Update History with the files in the provided link.

Similarly, check MBAM to see if has been updated to version 5.5.2.242.

However, it is most likely not due to either an update to Windows 10 or MBAM.  Please see this article, "Hard Drive Light Stays On: What Are the Causes and Solutions"

[ron350]

  Thanks my MBAM is version 5.5.2.242.

Changing the subject.
  Under System Restore there was only one restore point that said
 
  "Automatic restore point 3/31/2026 9:15 AM"

   I atempted to perform a system restore but forgot to turn off Mbam so there was no system restore..
Now there is no system restore points even though I set one every Saturday.

  Is the "automatic restore point" prompted by some kind of update?

[Corrine]

MBAM doesn't remove System Restores and, no, the "automatic restore point" setting is not prompted by any updates. Rather it is a setting a user can set up as discussed here.

[ron350]

Thanks now i have to find a new computer.

[Corrine]

Did you try the suggestions in Hard Drive Light Stays On: What Are the Causes and Solutions?

[v_v]

Thanks now i have to find a new computer.

This seems to be a bit rash and unlikely to be necessary.  It sounds kind of like, "My tires are not holding air.  That means I need to buy a new car!"

Did you follow through with the links that Corrine suggested?  What were the results?

v_v

[ron350]

  V_V thanks for helping but you guys told ne over a year ago thta this hard drive was going bad. Every thing has ben normal untill tuesday morning when th HD light stayed on solid for 6 hours. Today the HD light just flickers constantly.

  Most of the information in this tutorial is strange to me. https://www.onecomputerguy.com/hard-drive-light-stays-on/
 
 I did find it strange that Task Manager shows these two things have High Impact at startup.

 hppusg.exe startup

  MS OneDrive startup

[Corrine]

Windows 10 has been around for a long time so it very well could be that it is, as you said, time to get a new computer. 

Any chance there is a System Restore point saved in OneDrive?

[ron350]

   Thanks Corrine but I don't know how to check Onedrive and I have wasted enough of your time.

[Corrine]

Since you have OneDrive in Startup, I thought you were using it.  If you used it in the past but just haven't used it recently, this article might be useful.

[ron350]

Corrine I have lookerd in Onedrive and can't find any thing that is saved.

[Corrine]

If you have important files on your computer, including pictures you want to save, I suggest saving them to OneDrive. Since you haven't used it, see Upload and save files and folders to OneDrive for instructions.

[v_v]

ron350,


[I see that you and Corrine have posted since I started this message nearly three hours ago, but everything I have written still applies.]


You are not providing enough information for anyone to help you.

Corrine, myself, and all of the other helpers at this site provide assistance because we choose to do so when and where we can.  But those who wish to receive help will need to choose to assist and cooperate with the helpers as much as possible in order to get the problems resolved, solutions found, or adequate and reasonable alternative suggestions provided.

In order to receive adequate help you will need to follow some instructions and/or procedures and then report the results with enough detail:  first for clarifying and understanding what the problem(s) is/(are); and second in order for further help to be provided. 


Your comment that

I did find it strange that Task Manager shows these two things have High Impact at startup.

 hppusg.exe startup

  MS OneDrive startup

is most likely irrelevant to the problem that you have so far described.  Many programs and processes have a high impact at startup.  But that is usually just for startup; after computer startup said programs and processes usually fade into insignificance or even cease from being active at all.



Moving on,

1.  First what are your computer specs?
1a. What version of Windows are you running?  (If Windows 10, are you receiving extended security updates?)
1b. What is your computer brand and model number?
1c. How much ram do you have?
1d. What is your disk drive capacity?
1e. How many partitions does your drive have if any?
1f. Do you have more than one physical disk drive?

2. What is your backup strategy?  Do you have any backups?  (For instance I back up my hard drive to two other hard drives at least once a month---one is a complete mirror backup of my main hard drive, and the other is an incremental backup of the files that have changed.)

3. From the above base information, when your hard drive light is on excessively, using Task Manager in the "Processes" tab, look at the column labeled "Disk".  Is there a flashing/changing percentage listed there?
3a. (If you do not see a "Disk" column or any percent, right click on any column, then in the popup check/choose all of the choices except "Command Line" and "GPU Engine", and then still in the popup scroll down to "Resource values" and then to the right choose "Disk", and then choose "Percents".)
3b. What percentages do you see when your disk is running excessively?  Using that same column scan everything down the page to try to see what is using the highest percentages.  Hopefully this should indicate what is actually using the disk.  Make note of exactly which programs and/or processes are using the highest percentages, and report/post those names and percentage amounts.

4. At the page Corrine suggested (" https://www.onecomputerguy.com/hard-drive-light-stays-on/ ") there are several "Checks" that you should post the results from.
4a. "Check Your Hard Drive Using The Resource Usage in Windows"
4b. "Check Your RAM Using the Resource Usage in Windows"
4c. "Check Your CPU Usage Using the Resource Usage in Window"
4d.  In Windows File Explorer click "This PC" then right click your "Local Disk (C:)" and choose "Properties."  In the "General" tab how much "Used space" and "Free space" do you see?
Post the results from all of these "Checks" (4a---4d)

v_v

[Paddy]

The computer appears to be a HP.  V_V

hppusg.exe is
Part of HP software, often involved in launching HP utilities, supporting printer software, or managing system events.

It is not a necessary Windows process. Disabling it will not affect the core functioning of your PC.

You can go ahead and disable that process Ron.

Then please follow the instructions that V_V has posted above,ron350

Paddy..