Wednesday, February 5
244746 - Disk Defragmenter Polling Causes Excess Disk I/O on Drives with Unformatted Partitions
NOTE: Although the Disk Defragmenter console makes this excess disk I/O apparent by polling every few seconds, the same excess disk I/O can be triggered when you are performing other tasks (such as starting Windows Explorer) if you have a large number of unformatted partitions.