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    Weird HDTune graph

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dan15, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. Dan15

    Dan15 Newbie

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    Hey everyone,
    I've had a Western Digital 250 GB hard drive in my laptop for about a year, maybe a bit longer (upgraded from the 80 GB it came with). Ran HDTune, and the graph looks rather... interesting
    [​IMG]

    What's with the bit at the start? Is that normal? :eek2:
    My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400 and I'm using Windows XP, if that matters.

    Thanks :)
     
    Dan15, Jun 22, 2009
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  2. Jaycee8980

    Jaycee8980 Notebook Deity

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    It is quite possible that your HD and/or processor was accessing/executing extraneous data while the HDTune scan began.

    Post up another scan. This time make sure your computer is at a dead idle. Kill any 3rd party and un-needed running processes through task manager and run the scan again.
     
    Jaycee8980, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. Dan15

    Dan15 Newbie

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    Thanks for that, I think you've got it. :)
    Closed everything I had open and killed some things that weren't needed (I'm not too good at things like this, so only killed what I knew wasn't needeed), and here's the new graph:
    [​IMG]
    The low 'peaks' are still very low, though o_o

    Kinda offtopic, but is there a way to see what programs are accessing the disk while the computer is idle?
     
    Dan15, Jun 22, 2009
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  4. Phil

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    Try disabling more services and applications: network, wireless, Anti virus.

    With ctrl-alt-del you'll see all background applications and services. There you can manually terminate them.

    How many processes do you have running? In XP it should not be more than 50 in my opinion.
     
    Phil, Jun 23, 2009
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