Hard drive working really hard, any way to tell what its doing?

Hi

I have two partitions on my hard drive, both with windows 7 on themn. One is for music production and one is for general stuff.

n the general one, especially after stratup every now and again the hard drive light will just go on for a few minutes and the computer wont be able to do anything else. And if Im using traktor (dj program) it styutters teh audio whilst this is happeneing, which makes it un uasable.

I just would like to find out what the hard drive is doing, so maybe I can sort it out. On my other partition this doesnt happen, so there must be something making it happen.

Itss no a virus scan!

Cheers

 

hi, to start with, open Resource Monitor (via the Performance tab in Task Manager or run resmon.exe) and check activity in Overview > Disk and in Disk > Disk activity.

 

I think it's the indexing service that is querying the files on your HDD after start up.

happens with me on every first startup of the day, and my first partition (of two) is quite full at 220GB.

It could be the system restore doing its thing as well.

 

one of the first things i turn off, along with UAC.

 

congrats for castrating your system and making it insecure. you sure have to be proud of yourself.


to the op, yeah, check which process generates the disk activity in the resource monitor and then report back.


it might be superfetch being borked for some reason. happened to me once (in vista days, so it's been a while). that can bork down the system when it tries to fetch wrong files for some reason.

non-the-less, consider increasing the usb latency (and the audio latency) in traktor a notch so it won't create random hickups. they're hella annoying. (traktor user myself)

 

Yep, exactly. Particularly smart moves, to turn off a useful service that has absolutely, positively zero impact on system performance, and then eliminating system security in its entirety to go back to 1980s-levels of system integrity. That's what I call a "power user".