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External Hard Drive 100% when accessed
Every time I access my external hard drive, it jumps to 100% usage and stays that way for about 15 minutes.
Ithink it is windows defender scanning it, but I'm not sure.
Also:even after the scan is complete, if I try to copy a file to it from a flash drive, it will jump upto full transfer speed for a second and then go to 0mb/s.. It sits there for a bit, then jumps back to full transfer speed for a few seconds and then dies back to 0mb/s.. An 800mb file took 20 minutes to copy, when it should have taken less than a minute.
How can I tell what program is beating up the drive every time I access it?
If it is windows defender, how can I tell it to NOT scan every time I access it?