What is my harddrive doing?

Posted: 06-26-2008, 02:10 PM

Allan DK

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Dear Somebody.

When I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first
approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a
program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the
entire system.
I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I
have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running the
Sidepanel (closed down a few days ago). Looking at the joblist I can see no
processes using more than 2%, however the disk is used 48% (as shown in the
sidepanel). Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to cure this?
The PC is a Medion bought late last year. It is my first PC with Vista.
Thanks in advance for your help.

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What is my harddrive doing?

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BurrWalnut

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RE: What is my harddrive doing?

Posted: 06-26-2008, 03:09 PM

Click the Windows Orb (Start) > All Programs > Administrative Tools >
Reliability and Performance Monitor and on the right, click on the drop-down
arrow to see what program/service is accessing/using the CPU, Hard Disk,
Network or Memory.

"Allan DK" wrote:

> Dear Somebody.
>
> When I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first
> approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a
> program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the
> entire system.
> I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I
> have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running the
> Sidepanel (closed down a few days ago). Looking at the joblist I can see no
> processes using more than 2%, however the disk is used 48% (as shown in the
> sidepanel). Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to cure this?
> The PC is a Medion bought late last year. It is my first PC with Vista.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> --
> Allan DK

MilesAhead

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Re: What is my harddrive doing?

Posted: 06-26-2008, 03:26 PM

See this thread:

http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...blem-back.html

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Allan DK

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Re: What is my harddrive doing?

Posted: 06-27-2008, 08:59 AM

I have printed out the link and will try some of the suggestions. As one
wrote it really drives me crazy. And by the way I do defrag every second week
or so.
Thank sofr the link.
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Allan DK

"MilesAhead" wrote:

>
> See this thread:
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/general-disc...blem-back.html
>
>
> --
> MilesAhead
>
> "Why is half the world named after a guy I never heard of?"
>

Allan DK

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RE: What is my harddrive doing?

Posted: 06-27-2008, 09:00 AM

I will try that. Thanks. It seems I am not the only one with this problem.
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Allan DK

"BurrWalnut" wrote:

> Click the Windows Orb (Start) > All Programs > Administrative Tools >
> Reliability and Performance Monitor and on the right, click on the drop-down
> arrow to see what program/service is accessing/using the CPU, Hard Disk,
> Network or Memory.
>
>
> "Allan DK" wrote:
>
> > Dear Somebody.
> >
> > When I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first
> > approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a
> > program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the
> > entire system.
> > I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I
> > have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running the
> > Sidepanel (closed down a few days ago). Looking at the joblist I can see no
> > processes using more than 2%, however the disk is used 48% (as shown in the
> > sidepanel). Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to cure this?
> > The PC is a Medion bought late last year. It is my first PC with Vista.
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > --
> > Allan DK

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