Hard drive keeps ticking when it should be idle?

[dmxdex2020]

Argh its driving me nuts what the hell is it doing its like its doing something when it should be idle?

i closed down aload of processors running in the background and it just ticks?

I am running vista 64bit ultimate.

 

[dmxdex2020]

Turned it off.

 

[dmxdex2020]

No i think it does it when its working on something.

The drive is new.

Not sure what though.