Harddrive running at 100% all the time

Hello

I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,

And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is doing
nothing.

i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also the
superper frech thing

but still it is running at 100%.

if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.

i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at
100%

i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file on
the desktop to my documents folder.

I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and again
still running at 100% all the time

the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.

i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task
manager.

(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am guess
it is something to do with vista)

anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me nuts

thanks

Andy

What edition of Vista and how much memory?

"Andy" <> wrote in message
news:fv7gii$tsp$...
> Hello
>
> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>
> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
> doing nothing.
>
> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
> the superper frech thing
>
> but still it is running at 100%.
>
> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>
> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at
> 100%
>
> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
> on the desktop to my documents folder.
>
> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
> again still running at 100% all the time
>
> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>
> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task
> manager.
>
> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
> guess it is something to do with vista)
>
> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me nuts
>
> thanks
>
> Andy
>

Andy;697872 Wrote:
> Hello
>
> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>
> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
> doing
> nothing.
>
> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
> the
> superper frech thing
>
> but still it is running at 100%.
>
> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>
> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
> at
> 100%
>
> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb
> file on
> the desktop to my documents folder.
>
> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
> again
> still running at 100% all the time
>
> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>
> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
> task
> manager.
>
> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
> guess
> it is something to do with vista)
>
> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
> nuts
>
> thanks
>
> Andy

Hi Andy,

It could be the Index running in the background updating itself, or
Disk Defragmenter running on a schedule in the background to.

These tutorials will show you how to disable these as a test to see:

Index:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...e-disable.html

Disk Defragmenter Schedule:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...ragmenter.html


These options can help improve the performance of Vista as well.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html


Hope this helps,
Shawn


--
Brink

*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
them.*
'*VISTA FORUMS*' *Please post feedback to help others.*

Open Resource Monitor (from Task Manager), expand the Disk category, and
click on the Read (B/min) and Write (B/Min) column headers to sort to see
exactly what physical files Vista is reading/writing to/from. That should
give you an excellent clue, if not the reason.

I LOVE this new feature in Vista.

--
Michael Reinders
Vista Ultimate SP1

"Andy" <> wrote in message
news:fv7gii$tsp$...
> Hello
>
> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>
> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
> doing nothing.
>
> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
> the superper frech thing
>
> but still it is running at 100%.
>
> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>
> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at
> 100%
>
> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
> on the desktop to my documents folder.
>
> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
> again still running at 100% all the time
>
> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>
> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task
> manager.
>
> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
> guess it is something to do with vista)
>
> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me nuts
>
> thanks
>
> Andy
>

I am running vista home premium, and it has 3gb of ram.

Andy


"Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
news:EDFF043A-3898-4835-8B28-...
> What edition of Vista and how much memory?
>
> "Andy" <> wrote in message
> news:fv7gii$tsp$...
>> Hello
>>
>> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>>
>> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
>> doing nothing.
>>
>> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
>> the superper frech thing
>>
>> but still it is running at 100%.
>>
>> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>>
>> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
>> at 100%
>>
>> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
>> on the desktop to my documents folder.
>>
>> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
>> again still running at 100% all the time
>>
>> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>>
>> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
>> task manager.
>>
>> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
>> guess it is something to do with vista)
>>
>> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
>> nuts
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Andy
>>
>

Hello

this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.

lots of system files, (100's of them)

Andy
"Michael Reinders" <> wrote in message
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> Open Resource Monitor (from Task Manager), expand the Disk category, and
> click on the Read (B/min) and Write (B/Min) column headers to sort to see
> exactly what physical files Vista is reading/writing to/from. That should
> give you an excellent clue, if not the reason.
>
> I LOVE this new feature in Vista.
>
> --
> Michael Reinders
> Vista Ultimate SP1
>
> "Andy" <> wrote in message
> news:fv7gii$tsp$...
>> Hello
>>
>> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>>
>> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
>> doing nothing.
>>
>> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
>> the superper frech thing
>>
>> but still it is running at 100%.
>>
>> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>>
>> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
>> at 100%
>>
>> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
>> on the desktop to my documents folder.
>>
>> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
>> again still running at 100% all the time
>>
>> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>>
>> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
>> task manager.
>>
>> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
>> guess it is something to do with vista)
>>
>> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
>> nuts
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Andy
>>

"Brink" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Andy;697872 Wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>>
>> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
>> doing
>> nothing.
>>
>> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
>> the
>> superper frech thing
>>
>> but still it is running at 100%.
>>
>> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>>
>> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
>> at
>> 100%
>>
>> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb
>> file on
>> the desktop to my documents folder.
>>
>> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
>> again
>> still running at 100% all the time
>>
>> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>>
>> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
>> task
>> manager.
>>
>> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
>> guess
>> it is something to do with vista)
>>
>> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
>> nuts
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Andy
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> It could be the Index running in the background updating itself, or
> Disk Defragmenter running on a schedule in the background to.
>
> These tutorials will show you how to disable these as a test to see:
>
> Index:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...e-disable.html
>
> Disk Defragmenter Schedule:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...ragmenter.html
>
>
> These options can help improve the performance of Vista as well.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81...nce-vista.html
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*VISTA FORUMS*' > *Please post feedback to help others.*

Hello

Indexing is already disabled, as is the search option, and also the auto
defrag.

frist things i did.

still running at 100%

fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a HP machine.
"Andy" <> wrote in message
news:fva211$2dgd$...
> Hello
>
> this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.
>
> lots of system files, (100's of them)
>
> Andy
> "Michael Reinders" <> wrote in message
> news:48178947$0$31740$...
>> Open Resource Monitor (from Task Manager), expand the Disk category, and
>> click on the Read (B/min) and Write (B/Min) column headers to sort to see
>> exactly what physical files Vista is reading/writing to/from. That
>> should give you an excellent clue, if not the reason.
>>
>> I LOVE this new feature in Vista.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Reinders
>> Vista Ultimate SP1
>>
>> "Andy" <> wrote in message
>> news:fv7gii$tsp$...
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I bought myself a new Dell XPS 420 computer on the 19th april,
>>>
>>> And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is
>>> doing nothing.
>>>
>>> i have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also
>>> the superper frech thing
>>>
>>> but still it is running at 100%.
>>>
>>> if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
>>>
>>> i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running
>>> at 100%
>>>
>>> i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file
>>> on the desktop to my documents folder.
>>>
>>> I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and
>>> again still running at 100% all the time
>>>
>>> the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
>>>
>>> i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on
>>> task manager.
>>>
>>> (i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am
>>> guess it is something to do with vista)
>>>
>>> anyone have any ideas to why, and how to stop it, as it is driving me
>>> nuts
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>
>

Andy;700930 Wrote:
> fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a H
> machine
> "Andy" <not@xxxxxx> wrote in messag
> news:fva211$2dgd$1@xxxxxx> > >
> > > Hell
> >
> > > this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time
> >
> > > lots of system files, (100's of them
> >
> > > And
> > > "Michael Reinders" <mdreinders@xxxxxx> wrote in messag
> > > news:48178947$0$31740$4c368faf@xxxxx
> >
> > > > >

LOL Andy

That's one way to fix the problem. Glad to hear you got it sorted

Shaw

--
Brin

*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not as
them.*
'*VISTA FORUMS*' *Please post feedback to help others.*

Thanks mate,

Better still, i took the HP back, and got another dell 420, and this one is
working as it should. must of got a bad one

But that sums up my luck, i can pick the one in the million bad computer,
but i cant get even one lottery number!

Andy

"Brink" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Andy;700930 Wrote:
>> fixed this, by taken the computer back to the shops and buying a HP
>> machine.
>> "Andy" <not@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:fva211$2dgd$1@xxxxxx> > >
>> > > Hello
>> > >
>> > > this is where is it saying it is running 100% of the time.
>> > >
>> > > lots of system files, (100's of them)
>> > >
>> > > Andy
>> > > "Michael Reinders" <mdreinders@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > > news:48178947$0$31740$4c368faf@xxxxxx
>> > >
>> > > > >
>
> LOL Andy,
>
> That's one way to fix the problem. Glad to hear you got it sorted.
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
> them.*
> '*VISTA FORUMS*' > *Please post feedback to help others.*