Hard drive monitor.

[G-CPTN]

Toshiba Satellite C660 Pentium P6100 2GHz 6GB RAM 50GB free space on 232GB HD W7 Home Premium - the hard drive is groaning and running almost constantly even when simply PPRuNeing. This has been constant for at least an hour, maybe two or more - it's only just got on my nerves (although it has died down occasionally before continuing at full chat).
I have searched this forum for earlier discussions but found nothing.

Is there a utility (like Task Manager but something a bit more specific) which will show what processes are doing the accessing?

The majority of the CPU activity appears to be attributable to Firefox (18.0 with an update awaiting a restart).

Having written this it has just stopped . . .

Maybe it was Firefox doing preliminary work?

[Prazum]

Try a defrag ?

[seanbean]

I use this:

Acronis Drive Monitor - free software to monitor server, workstation and PC hard disk drives (http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/drive-monitor/)

there are others

Best Free Hard Drive Health Monitoring and Diagnostic Programs (http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-health-monitoring-utility.htm#Quick_Selection_Guide)

[Martyn Northall]

You can find information on which processes are reading from/writing to the HDD by clicking on the 'Performance Monitor' button found on the Task Manager window.

[G-CPTN]

You can find information on which processes are reading from/writing to the HDD by clicking on the 'Performance Monitor' button found on the Task Manager window.

Magic! Thanks.

Sorted . . .

Just have to wait for the next time the HD runs.

[Loose rivets]

And then the Resource monitor button in that screen.


What was that colourful freebie that did much the same task - one which was popular on this forum before W7 came along?

[vulcanised]

There's a freebie called What's Running which tells you not only that, but loads more info.

[Mac the Knife]

"Is there a utility (like Task Manager but something a bit more specific) which will show what processes are doing the accessing? "

Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx)

Free, from MS itself.

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