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I've just got a new Dell Inspiron, and I'm a little disconcerted without the reassurance of a flashing hard drive light, especially with long installs. Is there something that can reveal HDD activity onscreen, e.g. in the system tray?

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You can try HDDPerf, which is dedicated to showing more details about the moments when the HDD is heavily used.

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DiskMon from Sysinternals can also be minimized to systray and act like a replacement HDD activity light.

DiskMon

DiskMon and HDDPerf are both freeware.

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  • DiskMon is a little outdated; it has been replaced with ProcMon. Apr 19, 2010 at 19:19
  • @grawity - But ProcMon doesn't minimize to tray, and thus doesn't answer this particular question (or I missed the option)
    – Gnoupi
    Apr 19, 2010 at 20:22
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HDDLed Indicator shows real-time read and write operations on hard disk drive as small blinking indicators. Features:

  • Monitor multiple hard drives.
  • Monitor multiple logical discs.
  • All-in-one mode - single indicator for all drives.
  • Use keyboard ScrollLock led to indicate activity.
  • Use system tray to indicate activity.
  • Separate read and write operations.

Free to try, 20 bucks to buy.

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    $20 for a little blinking light? overpriced IMO.
    – davr
    Apr 19, 2010 at 16:59

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