Can I find out exactly what my HDD's doing?!

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Phillip

Does anyone know, if a programme exists to report back to me exactly
what my hard drives doing? Or which programme is requiring acess to
it?

I've had a new laptop with vista on it for about a month now. The hard
drive isn't frantic, but it is clicking over continually. Even whilst
typing this message, something is requiring disk access and it's
really annoying me now. When I had XP, even on a reasonably
fragmented system, there were plenty of times when the HDD was
perfectly silent. So what's the big deal?

Oh - and I'm pretty sure I've switched off system restore and disk
caching too!

Thanks!
 
Right click on the taskbar, and bring up Task Manager. It will show you what
processes are working.
The main prob you have is with the "indexing"; it does it at the wrong time,
just when we want to be using things on there!
 
Phillip said:
Does anyone know, if a programme exists to report back to me exactly
what my hard drives doing? Or which programme is requiring acess to
it?

I've had a new laptop with vista on it for about a month now. The hard
drive isn't frantic, but it is clicking over continually. Even whilst
typing this message, something is requiring disk access and it's
really annoying me now. When I had XP, even on a reasonably
fragmented system, there were plenty of times when the HDD was
perfectly silent. So what's the big deal?

Oh - and I'm pretty sure I've switched off system restore and disk
caching too!
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Open the Reliability and Performance Monitor. From Start Orb start to type
Reliability. A link for it will appear at the top left. Run it, and expand
the disk section to see what's accessing the drive.
 
Mick said:
Right click on the taskbar, and bring up Task Manager. It will show you what
processes are working.
The main prob you have is with the "indexing"; it does it at the wrong time,
just when we want to be using things on there!
Click to expand...

It sounds like indexing is happening at the right time... When the user is
composing a message (which requires little or no disk access) as compared to,
say, when the user is saving a file or launching an app.
 
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