Qosmio G50 - HDD light flashes every second

Okay, So here it is,
I have a Qosmio G50. I have installed WindowXP Pro 64-bit.
I have noticed that the hard drive light flashes every second. I have spent a bit of time looking on the net for a soultion. This led me to download a utility called 'process explorer' from microsoft.
This utility show me that the active process is services.exe. The properties of this service suggest that it handles 'eventlog' and 'plugplay'
I realise that I cannot switch of the event log, nor would I want to.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
The HDD led flashes always if there any data would be read from or written on the HDD.
The service.exe (Service Control Manager) belongs to the Windows OS and its Microsoft background process which is needed and from my knowledge it cannot be disabled.
Bye

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