Re: Very Busy Disc While Idle
- From: 1PW <1PW@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:39:28 -0700
David E. Ross wrote:
Windows XP SP2
My current power scheme has the following settings:
"Turn off monitor" after 20 minutes
"Turn off hard disks" atfer 25 minutes]
"System standby" after 30 minutes
If I walk away from my PC and return about an hour later, I hear one of
my hard drives whirring away at a very high speed.
I have two physical hard drives; I don't know which one is doing this.
If I jiggle my mouse, it stops. Thus, I can't use the Performance
Monitor to determine which drive.
Why is this happening? Can I do anything to prevent it?
Hello David:
If you install Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer from:
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx>
and launch it before you know your system will have some idle time.
Then when you see that your system's HDD is showing activity, you can
bring Process Explorer to the forefront where you can slew your mouse
pointer to the activity graphs for the previous few seconds where you
will gain a small window showing the processes that were taking place
then.
The theory of others that antimalware is scanning is a good one I believe.
XP SP2 David? Service Pack 3 goes well with PGP sir. 8-)
Good to see your posts,
Pete
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1PW
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