Vista HDD Activity

[Lee Asher]

Why is is so that ever since I have been running Vista Ultimate my HDD led
runs almost non stop. I have disabled Superfetch, Indexing and Defrag just
to name a few in a vain attempt to track down why this happens.

It appears to be normal with some but not all Vista installations. Before
Vista came along this sort of activity would ring alarm bells. The System
and Performance monitor shows it is updating system files but why does it
need to do it 100% of the time. Hard drives are NOT built with a 100% duty
cycle in mind.

I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
problem.

Regards
Lee

 

[Robert Kochem]

I need some knowledgable person who knows the complete answer to this
problem.

What about yourself? Using the MS Sysinternals ProcessMonitor you can make
a realtime trace of all file/Registry/network/process activity on your pc
(on a per process basis).
With this information you should be able to identify the "culprit" easily.

Robert

 

[Guest]

Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Escape). Add I/O to the columns (View - Select
Columns) on the Process tab. Then sort by IO

 

[Guest]

Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Escape). Add I/O to the columns (View - Select
Columns) on the Process tab. Then sort by IO

 

[Charlie Tame]

Lee, I found that going to hard drive "Properties" and unchecking the
"Allow indexing" box made a difference. This activity is supposed to
"Subside" after a while but in my case it never seemed to.

 

[measekite Da Monkey]

Lee, I found that going to hard drive "Properties" and unchecking the
"Allow indexing" box made a difference. This activity is supposed to
"Subside" after a while but in my case it never seemed to.

Re-read his post. He already disabled Indexing.