Finding the Hard Drive Trasher
There is time in your computing life that your hard drive is working extra hard for no reason, I usually get that, and my computer’s a bit lagging because somehow a certain background process is a hard drive trasher by doing something in which i don’t fully understand why would that certain process do that, we’re friends, I know. But that’s the reason why my computer has a very slow response time as the process overloads the limitations of the hard drive.
Now the here’s a way to detect the process:
# 1
- Click on the Start Button and key in Reliability. Click on the Reliability and Performance Monitor shortcut.
- On the main screen click on the Disk section down arrow to see a list of all processes and the files they are writing or reading from your drives.
- Click on the Read or Write headings to sort all disk operations to identify which process and file is currently using the disk the most.
# 2
- Visit Microsoft’s Sysinternals web site and download Process Explorer.
- After you have started Process Explorer, click on the View menubar item and then Select Columns.
- Click on the Process Performance tab and check:
- I/O Reads
- I/O Read Bytes
- I/O Writes
- I/O Write Bytes
- Hit OK.
- You
Written by PC Freak on March 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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