[boka]

i just switched to vista recently and i'm getting long bursts of heavy HDD access - it doesn't seem to affect general performance of my machine to a great degree and maybe i'm just being paranoid, but yeah, i hear that krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrrrrr sound all the time and am wondering whether it's causing any wear in my HDD

i looked the problem up on the net but i didn't find any other people having the same problem... anyhow i turned the indexing service off in services.msc and have also disabled the page file - things seem better than before but i'm still getting the occasional runs of disk access. i downloaded process monitor from microsoft support and it seems svchost is the main culprit.

anyone have the same problem or know whether it's normal?

[dot1q]

i just switched to vista recently and i'm getting long bursts of heavy HDD access - it doesn't seem to affect general performance of my machine to a great degree and maybe i'm just being paranoid, but yeah, i hear that krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrrrrr sound all the time and am wondering whether it's causing any wear in my HDD

i looked the problem up on the net but i didn't find any other people having the same problem... anyhow i turned the indexing service off in services.msc and have also disabled the page file - things seem better than before but i'm still getting the occasional runs of disk access. i downloaded process monitor from microsoft support and it seems svchost is the main culprit.

anyone have the same problem or know whether it's normal?

Download the file monitor as well to see what files it is accessing.

I get disk access on a regular basis as well but they are all small io operations and I figure it's just normal. Like you state above, it doesn't affect any performance.

I personally disabled all of the following in Vista because I don't need them....

Indexing
Previous file versions
System restore/protection
Windows firewall
Readyboost
Superfetch

Theres also tons of services I disabled which I don't need.

Overall, I think its just normal based upon what services and features you are actually using. As long as your hdd activity light isnt blinking constantly 24/7 then I don't think its really a concern. So far both my installations of Vista at home and at work exhibit the same behavior.

[boka]

it was fairly heavy disk access, but it seems to have stopped now...

thanks for the suggestions - i didn't know i had half those services running. i turned them all off except superfetch and i might give a 1GB page file back to vista - in the end i think it might have been a combination of antivirus and defrag trying to use all my idle time but now i'm idling pretty quietly, which is definitely easier on the ears

i'm now trying to deal with a couple of other little problems - my computer doesn't want to stay asleep, it'll wake itself up after half a minute... i can use the hibernate option but it's as slow as regular booting

i still prefer to use hibernate over shut-down anyway since my keyboard also stops working if i cold boot. i had the same problem once on an XP computer at work. i have to plug it into another USB slot to get the drivers to reinstall or do it through device manager with the mouse if i didn't set a password. definitely a software-side problem but never figured out how to fix it. i think keyboards just hate me.

i'm just going to leave these problems for another day when they start to annoy me...

[awdark]

The task manager links to the Resource Monitor in the Performance tab. I know my laptop sits and grinds away all the time trying to index files. I hope its not trying to index my browser cache or something -__-

[dot1q]

Speaking of defrag, there are tons of scheduled jobs in Vista; scheduled defrag being one of them. I'm sure any combination of these are also contributing to hdd activity.