Re: how to monitor the Low level Disk activity?

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You have to use Diskperf and reboot to enable the disk counters.

John

mttc wrote:

After I realize that Performance Tools with Disk Counter not show the
Disk activity, so if the NT Cache or Disk cache is involve with read/
write from disk the Counter show like HD Activity.

So how I can trace the Disk itself?

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