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

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!

What about disk indexing?
"Phillip" <spoonsop@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1177893122.182362.324950@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> 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!
>

This tool will report file access:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...k/Filemon.mspx

Cheers
Ken

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"Phillip" <spoonsop@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1177893122.182362.324950@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> 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" wrote:

> 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!
>
>

"Phillip" <spoonsop@gmail.com> wrote

> 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!


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.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"Mick" wrote:

> 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!

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.