Vista - What's keeping hard drive so busy?

I have indexing service turned off and nothing is running that's using the
HD. Yet, sometimes the HD will sit there for a while spinning. This system
has two HDs and it sounds like I'm moving large files from one HD to the
other. The HD is constantly spinning & crunching. What else could be
keeping it so busy?

There are two E6600 CPUs and they are usually at one or two percent but jump
every few seconds to 8 - 25%.

Thanks,
Brett

Automatic defragging.

"Brett" <public_at_cygen_dot_com> wrote

>I have indexing service turned off and nothing is running that's using the
>HD. Yet, sometimes the HD will sit there for a while spinning. This
>system has two HDs and it sounds like I'm moving large files from one HD to
>the other. The HD is constantly spinning & crunching. What else could be
>keeping it so busy?
>
> There are two E6600 CPUs and they are usually at one or two percent but
> jump every few seconds to 8 - 25%.

Take a look at the Disk section in Reliability and Performance Monitor to
see what the action is. From Start | Reliability and Performance, click on
it, in the right pane expand the Disk and CPU sections to see what processes
are invoking what file access.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

How can I disable this defragging? I run a third party and I hate the
stupid idiotic Windows one that gives no detail at all.. how retarded that
was.. think M$ must have some real morons in their design department.


"CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Automatic defragging.
>
>

"malaac" <molitar@gmail.com> wrote

> How can I disable this defragging? I run a third party and I hate the
> stupid idiotic Windows one that gives no detail at all.. how retarded that
> was.. think M$ must have some real morons in their design department.

> "CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote

>> Automatic defragging.

Post a new thread with your question, don't hang it on as a reply to someone
else's thread. Maybe search Help and Support for defragmentation? Your one
of those that likes to sit mesmerized and watch the colored blocks jiggle
and move, eh?

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

"Rock" <rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> "malaac" <molitar@gmail.com> wrote
>
>> How can I disable this defragging? I run a third party and I hate the
>> stupid idiotic Windows one that gives no detail at all.. how retarded
>> that was.. think M$ must have some real morons in their design
>> department.
>
>> "CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote
>
>>> Automatic defragging.
>
> Post a new thread with your question, don't hang it on as a reply to
> someone else's thread.

Commonly known as hijacking a thread. Errrggg!