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 will now see the new columns listed for each process. To identify what process is killing your hard drive, just look for the process with the highest number of Reads or Bytes.
After you have Identified the process, just kill that process.
Written by PC Freak on March 20th, 2008 with
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