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Ole
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      04-28-2010
Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.? It
is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that the
search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.

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Ole

 
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      04-28-2010


"Ole" <> wrote in message
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> Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.?
> It is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that
> the search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.
>
> Thanks
> Ole

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      04-28-2010
Could be almost anything. Hard drive defragging, indexing, antivirus
scanning your hard drive when it's idle, lots of possibilities.

"Ole" <> wrote in message
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> Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.?
> It is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that
> the search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.
>
> Thanks
> Ole


 
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      04-28-2010

Richard G. Harper;1259577 Wrote:
> Could be almost anything. Hard drive defragging, indexing, antiviru
> scanning your hard drive when it's idle, lots of possibilities
>
> "Ole" <ole@newsgroup> wrote in messag
> news:O5docsw5KHA.5548@newsgroup> > >
> > > Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways bee

> > that.
> > > It is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I gues

> > tha
> > > the search indexer doesn't use so much capacity

> >
> > > Thank
> > > Ole > >


Or even just a loud hard-drive

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      04-29-2010
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:43:20 +0200, "Ole" <> wrote:

>Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.? It
>is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that the
>search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.
>
>Thanks
>Ole


Indexing is usually working 99% of the time .
 
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      05-01-2010
HAve tried to disable windows search entirwly without any changes in HD
activity. The HD ticks like a second hand on a watch - theres a read or
write on the HD once every second and so it has been for 2 years now -
I'm afraid my HD will be very worn in a short time.

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Ole

 
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Frank Drew Leyda
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      05-02-2010

"Ole" <> wrote in message
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> Any idea why my harddisc drive is very active and has allways been that.?
> It is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that
> the search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.
>
> Thanks
> Ole

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Alt-Ctrl-Del
Task Manager
Processes
Left click Memory to see what is taking up memory.
May tell you what is running.

 
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      05-07-2010

> Have you had a look in Resource Monitor ?
> Task Manager
> Performance
> Resource Monitor
> Select the Disk drop-down menu, you can double-click the Read and Write
> headers to sort into an ascending/descending display. If the disk is
> active
> every second something should show up here.



I can see the files written or read to but I can't see the one that causes
the "per second disc activity". The Read and Write columbs shows B/mins so
if the read or write activity is very stable it is not possible to see any
changes and therefore it is not posible to locate the problem. Is it posible
to change any settings in the resource monitor or is the a disc log file
that I can view?

Thanks
Ole

 
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      05-07-2010
"Steven L." <> wrote in message
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> "Ole" <> wrote in message
> news::
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>> Any idea why my hard disc drive is very active and has always been that.?
>> It
>> is mainly when I don't use the PC and it should be idle - I guess that
>> the
>> search indexer doesn't use so much capacity.

>
> I have Symantec Anti-Virus, which automatically starts scanning for
> viruses and cookies whenever the PC has been idle for more than 10
> minutes. And it really starts working that CPU--I can watch the temp
> rising on my SpeedFan gauge.

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      05-08-2010

On Fri, 7 May 2010 14:00:15 +0200, "Ole" <> wrote:

>I can see the files written or read to but I can't see the one that causes
>the "per second disc activity". The Read and Write columbs shows B/mins so
>if the read or write activity is very stable it is not possible to see any
>changes and therefore it is not posible to locate the problem. Is it posible
>to change any settings in the resource monitor or is the a disc log file
>that I can view?
>
>Thanks
>Ole


Good luck finding it. I've analyzed this in both XP and Vista on
multiple systems. The "once a second" HD access does NOT show up in
Process Explorer. According to windows, there is no I/O activity.

My only conclusion is that there is some activity on the I/O bus that
is not recorded by software. Keep in mind that Windows doesn't flash
that LED, the hardware does at a lower level. Another thought is that
it might be the CD drive being checked for insertion ... that might
not show as read/write I/O in the software since often is no CD and no
actual data being read or written without a CD in there, but the
hardware might record the traffic and flash the LED.
 
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