Ven Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 I think those with Vista knows what I'm talking about. At first, I thought it was defragmenter so I turned off auto defrag. But still, disk access (based on nTune) goes up to 50% all of sudden. But processor and RAM doesn't change... just the disk access. So I thought it's indexing. But in task manager, no search process is taking up any resources. This constant disk accessing is negatively impacting performance. Sometimes, the computer feels like it crashed but all it's doing was accessing the disk. What the heck is it accessing?
Fjordmonkey Posted June 10, 2007 Posted June 10, 2007 You're sure that your disk doesn't have errors? I've had disks that were accessed pretty much constantly without any apparent reason until I ran a diag-tool from the producers (Seagate's SeaTOOL). Regards Fjordmonkey Clustermunitions is just another way of saying that you don't like someone. I used to like people, then people ruined that for me.
Prophet Posted June 11, 2007 Posted June 11, 2007 If you open the resource monitor, you can see what is causing it. I think it is the Indexer. Im gonna turn it off to see if it helps.
Ven Posted June 11, 2007 Author Posted June 11, 2007 I tried the SeaTool and there's no 64bit version. But I got all kinds of diag tools but nothing shows disk error. And like I said, none of the monitoring tools show anything tasking CPU or RAM. Just the disk usage goes up and loud noise. I did search and there seems to be quite a lot of people complaining this about Vista. But everyone seems to be speculating the problem and nothing official. You guys with vista never had this issue?
Prophet Posted June 12, 2007 Posted June 12, 2007 Yeah I do. Like I said, open the Resource Monitor. Not Task Manager. But you can open it from Task Manager at the bottom of the Performance Tab. Drop down the details for disk usage, and it will show you what is using it the most. Mine is the Indexer service, when my work week is over I will be looking at how to turn it off. It seems like Vista chooses to index when computer usage is low, and just takes a while to finish what its doing when you do try and use the computer.
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