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    Sony SZ460 Harddrive Constantly writing

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by aaallenone, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. aaallenone

    aaallenone Newbie

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    My hard drive is constantly writing and running at 50% even when the computer is idle. I have done a system restore but it does not seem to make a difference. I have run virus scans and regedit scans but nothing changes. I am running Vista ultimate with a T7200 CPU and 2GB Ram. Any ideas?
     
    aaallenone, Feb 15, 2008
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Vista is constantly caching stuff to your hard drive and whatnot. Check out the Vista Tweaks thread on how to disable all that crap.
     
    adinu, Feb 15, 2008
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Also turn off the indexing in Vista. Caching should be a short term activity after initial boot-up.

    If that doesn't reduce the activity you can look in Task Manager to see which processes are busy and if that doesn't provide enough clues then you can use DiskMon..

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Feb 16, 2008
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