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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
Hi,
Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
Pwr@p. Wed, 12 Oct
2016 22:03:24 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? You could use Process Monitor by Sys Internals if you want to see which program(s) may be reading/writing data. Or, Diskmon if you just want to see what the HD is doing. As in, read/write, time, sector, bytes written/read. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...processmonitor https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...ernals/diskmon The older versions of Sysinternals apps supported XP, this suite partially does. Diskmon works, Process Monitor does not. I didn't check all of them, but, it's unlikely the majority are partially/fully functional on XP. -- People you encounter every day are fighting battles you know nothing about. Be kind. |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
Diesel wrote:
Pwr@p. Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:03:24 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? You could use Process Monitor by Sys Internals if you want to see which program(s) may be reading/writing data. Or, Diskmon if you just want to see what the HD is doing. As in, read/write, time, sector, bytes written/read. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...processmonitor https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...ernals/diskmon The older versions of Sysinternals apps supported XP, this suite partially does. Diskmon works, Process Monitor does not. I didn't check all of them, but, it's unlikely the majority are partially/fully functional on XP. And...what about Win2K? |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
Robert Baer wrote:
Diesel wrote: Pwr@p. Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:03:24 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? You could use Process Monitor by Sys Internals if you want to see which program(s) may be reading/writing data. Or, Diskmon if you just want to see what the HD is doing. As in, read/write, time, sector, bytes written/read. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...processmonitor https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...ernals/diskmon The older versions of Sysinternals apps supported XP, this suite partially does. Diskmon works, Process Monitor does not. I didn't check all of them, but, it's unlikely the majority are partially/fully functional on XP. And...what about Win2K? ProcMon uses the ETW subsystem. Which is present on WinXP or later. "Event Tracing for Windows" https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ntd...-and-overview/ "Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a system and software diagnostic, troubleshooting and performance monitoring component of Windows that has been around since Windows 2000." So we just have to step into a Time Machine and go back and grab a copy. No problemo. https://web.archive.org/web/20080921.../bb896645.aspx "Process Monitor runs on Windows 2000 SP4 with Update Rollup 1, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista as well as x64 versions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista." I hope your Win2K is fully patched... HTH, Paul |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:03:33 AM UTC+8, P...@p wrote:
Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P Possibly Windoze making a backup of the registry, if it is the first time you turn on PC that day. It seems to wait until system is idle, so users are then startled "WTF is this stoopid thrashing disk?" |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
On 12/10/2016 6:03 PM, Pwr@p. wrote:
Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P With Windows 7 and later, you can use the Resource Monitor utility (Resmon.exe). Yousuf Khan |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
On 15-Oct-16 6:16 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 12/10/2016 6:03 PM, Pwr@p. wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P With Windows 7 and later, you can use the Resource Monitor utility (Resmon.exe). Yousuf Khan Thanks for this, Yousuf! :-) I pasted Resmon.exe into the 'Ask me anything' box and was amazed at how much information was then at my fingertips! -- David B. "The truth begins in your heart". |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
On 15/10/2016 1:32 PM, David B wrote:
On 15-Oct-16 6:16 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 12/10/2016 6:03 PM, Pwr@p. wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P With Windows 7 and later, you can use the Resource Monitor utility (Resmon.exe). Yousuf Khan Thanks for this, Yousuf! :-) I pasted Resmon.exe into the 'Ask me anything' box and was amazed at how much information was then at my fingertips! Yeah, I sort of stumbled into Resmon by accident one day, when I noticed an extra button at the bottom of Task Manager that I never noticed before, and I clicked on it! :-D -- Sent from Giganews on Thunderbird on my Toshiba laptop |
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How to view what the hard drive is doing?
On 30/11/2017 03:51, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 15/10/2016 1:32 PM, David B wrote: On 15-Oct-16 6:16 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 12/10/2016 6:03 PM, Pwr@p. wrote: Hi, Often when I'm just sitting there reading or doing something that's not bothering the hard drive, or right after it has booted up but I haven't started using it yet, I can hear the hard drive crank up and start making it's busy noises when it seems like there should be nothing for it to do. Is there a way to view what it IS doing? If so, can we tell if it's a virus or malware or something, and find out where they are so we can try to get rid of them? Thanks! P With Windows 7 and later, you can use the Resource Monitor utility (Resmon.exe). *** Yousuf Khan Thanks for this, Yousuf!* :-) I pasted Resmon.exe into the 'Ask me anything' box and was amazed at how much information was then at my fingertips! Yeah, I sort of stumbled into Resmon by accident one day, when I noticed an extra button at the bottom of Task Manager that I never noticed before, and I clicked on it! :-D I do things like that too! ;-) -- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” (Winston S. Churchill) |
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