Guest johnsuth@nospam.com.au Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 XP Pro x64 is interrogating my SCSI hard drive every second, and periodicaly reading the whole drive, while my foreground application is waiting for me to give it another instruction. I have not authorised any background applications and I have turned off some Windows services which I felt were simply not neccessary for my use of this computer, including internet access. The computer is definitely not accessing the internet. What might I consider to stop this noisy and pointless disk access?
Guest Juergen Kluth Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Re: Win is wearing out my hard drive Hi, look for sysintenal's filemon(itor) you can figure out which app is accessing your files jk
Guest David Stevens Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Re: Win is wearing out my hard drive <johnsuth@nospam.com.au> wrote>: > ... > What might I consider to stop this noisy and pointless disk access? Juergen Kluth suggested Sysinternals Filemon. It's free, and it's also part of an 8MB package (Sysinternals Suite) with other programs that could help diagnose what's happening: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx Filemon is great. "Process Explorer," included in the package,will show you what's going on outside of the file system.- David Stevens
Guest Tom Ferguson Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Re: Win is wearing out my hard drive The very first thing I would do is be sure I have a well-defined baseline system. To that end, I would turn back on any services I had disabled. Then I would run a repair install and re-apply all updates. Then, if the problem persisted, and I were sure it was not just the indexing service or some type of malware, I would start by using the tools already suggested in this thread. Good luck. -- Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 <johnsuth@nospam.com.au> wrote in message news:c1.2c.3BqmFb$0PD@PC1.BIGPOND.COM... > > XP Pro x64 is interrogating my SCSI hard drive every second, and > periodicaly > reading the whole drive, while my foreground application is waiting for me > to > give it another instruction. > > I have not authorised any background applications and I have turned off > some > Windows services which I felt were simply not neccessary for my use of > this > computer, including internet access. The computer is definitely not > accessing > the internet. > > What might I consider to stop this noisy and pointless disk access? > > >
Recommended Posts