Vista - OK, new Vista machine is finsihed indexing, but hard drive still being access continuouksly

OK, so how do I find out what is reading my drive continuously, for as long
as the machine is on, and stop it?
This happens even when no programs are running and it's just the desktop.
This is going to kill my drive.
C

"Chippy" <chipme@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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And the machine specs are????

> This is going to kill my drive.

Actually, there is no evidence at all that accessing a drive like that
shortens its life. If you don't believe me, find those Google White Papers
which discuss at length hard disk failure modes. Nobody gets through more
hard disks than Google.

Lots of things cause ongoing disk accesses in Vista, and they all operate at
the lowest I/O and CPU priorities in order not to affect performance. Apart
from indexing, Vista spends a lot of time defragging the disk, preloading
stuff into memory in anticipation of you wanting it, and I believe it also
shuffles files around on the disk to improve boot performance.

Please don't worry. Vista accesses the disk more than XP. Eventually it'll
calm down, but you may need to wait several days.

SteveT

Oh, I forgot: other things which cause ongoing disk access are security
software (including Vista's built in anti-malware thing, and certain OS
functions such as the automatic creation of restore points, backups, etc.

I should also add that excessive disk thrashing can be caused by
insufficient RAM (although not normally when the machine is idle for any
length of time). You should have 2G of RAM, or more.

SteveT

> Actually, there is no evidence at all that accessing a drive like thatThere is no evidence of the nature of gravity though either. But we feel its
effects.
Yes no one really understands what the heck gravity is, if it is a wave or
particle of some sort and how it is generated.
Einstein said that it is a curvature of space time.. but that does not
describe how it works.

But for those who do know how hard drives work would never say what you
said.
Drives that ae thrashing all the time fail more often in home computers as
opposed to the drives that google has, because google has
their drives in air-conditioned rooms, with back up power, and no movement.

While in most computers they have difference in temp, humidity, electricity
may fail or the hard drive could be shocked my movement if it's a laptop or
someone kicking the box my mistake if it's a desktop.

You don't need to be Einstein to realize this simple thing.. YES DRIVES DIE
FAR MORE OFTEN when they keep crunching data!!!!
The more data the are reading writing the more the disk head is moving
across the disk platter, the more the movement the more possuibility for it
to scratch the disk if some of the above reasons happen.




"Steve Thackery" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can wait several years and vista will still access the disk far more
than XP ever did (on the same hardware)
have ever seen the vista schecduled tasks as apposed to xp?

No? Yes? Oh you have? And you still are here to remind us about vista
needing 2 gigs just to function properly?

LOL

"Steve Thackery" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh.. and I forgot to mention.. google doesn't run an OS prone to crashes...
lol
Ok lets say vista is not the culprit always.. nevertheless, computer crashes
and abrupt restarts
is the worst thing that can happen for a disk while its reading writing...
again because the head is moving
it can create far more damage than if it was just sitting in one place...

Google is probably running some version of linux on its servers.. and not
vista... :-)

They don't install apps and drivers all the time...

why am I here analyzing it so much?.. he is right.. the disk lifespan is
reduced statistically the more its being thrashed.

"Steve Thackery" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Has your "new" computer become part of (one of many) a bot net? This would
certainly account for disk activity as your computer spews out hundreds of
thousands of bogus emails per day - behind your back.

Get a good internet monitoring program to see if this is happening. I use
NetMeter.

I went to my sons house a few weeks back. He had not actively used his
computer for a couple of hours. Yet, NetMeter showed that his out going
stream was using about 2.1 meg of bandwidth. This went on for over 2 hours.
His computer was "owned" as it turned out.

After retreating to a system image I had created for him a few weeks prior
all activity stopped and his hard disk was again quiet.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Chippy" <chipme@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u3%23pB0xSJHA.6060@xxxxxxAlso have you got any p2p stuff on the pc? The bbc iplayer for instance,
you have to uncheck the box in settings so you dont allow file sharing from
other users.

>Leave the machine on 24/7, it will settle down after a day or 2

fail


"Bob Campbell" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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