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Massive harddisk accessing problem

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  • 03-06-2004 6:14pm
    #1
    Bunny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭


    Right now as I type this the harddisk is accessing, stops for a bit, and keeps going, all the time, if I use task manager, I can see CPU spikes up to 100% every 10/20 seconds.

    p4 1.6
    512 sd ram
    20 gig (XP on that) + 80 gig drive
    geforce Ti4200
    XP home edition

    What I've tried..
    Changing the virtual memory to every variable possible, everything.
    Adaware and Spybot 1.3 complete searches.
    Registry clean out, windows defrag, independant program defrags.
    General XP tweaks, set to performance, etc.

    Task manager information..

    totals handles 7814
    totals
    handles 7841 (changes alot)
    threads 415
    processes 32

    Commit charge (K)
    total 210248
    limit 2062680
    peak 211876

    Physical Memory (K)
    Total 523276
    Available 283000 ish
    System Cache 246000 ish

    Kernal Memory (K)
    total 61600
    paged 37512
    nonpaged 24144

    About 30 processes running

    Is there some program I could download that would diagnose the problem and make everything just work?

    Fiddling with my paging virtual memory makes no different whatsoever. I can't format harddrive or reinstall XP.


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    #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Well I not sure which HD it is ,but turn off indexing on the drive its useless.
    Make sure DMA is enabled if supported, i imagine the 80gb is faster so switch the XP install to that (use partition manager if you lazy)

    Defrag your Page file with this.

    I imagine its the indexing thing can be a nightmare on XP sometimes.

    kdjac


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    #3
    Bunny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭Bunny


    thanks alot
    I'll try all that


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    #4
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Sysinternals have a few utils that might be of use to you.

    http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

    Should show you exactly which process is farting around with your HD.


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