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Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
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Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:59 am
Posted by Dirk Mouss
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Stop
Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
When my computer is on and I'm not using it, the hard drive activity light repeatedly
shows drive access every two seconds or so, continually. The fragmentation % of
my hard drive seems to go up fast, even with minimal usage. Last night I used Speed
Disk from NU and though it usually winds up with a 1-2% fragmemtation residual,
nowadays it's more like 5-6% after sitting overnight without my use. Is there some
way to stop this continual undirected disk access? Thanks!
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 11:32 am
Posted by Ricer46
(22836 messages posted)
1. Turn off indexing
See this site for other services that you should consider turning off:
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
Also with good partitioning of your hard drive, you can pretty well forget about
defragging.
Two physical disks:
Disk 0
partition 1 about 10GB for OS and programs
Optionally put programs on a separate partition with a smaller partition for OS
partition 2 small for data files that change - business type
partition 3 large for data files that don't change - things like pictures music
disk 1
small partition for swap file
large partitition for Disk image files for quick restore when things really go bad.
also data backup.
Besides making defragging irrelevant, this gives you far greater backup security
than what you currently have.
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:59 am, Dirk Mouss wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
>When my computer is on and I'm not using it, the hard drive activity light repeatedly
>shows drive access every two seconds or so, continually. The fragmentation % of
>my hard drive seems to go up fast, even with minimal usage. Last night I used Speed
> Disk from NU and though it usually winds up with a 1-2% fragmemtation residual,
>nowadays it's more like 5-6% after sitting overnight without my use. Is there some
>way to stop this continual undirected disk access? Thanks!
>
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk'
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 11:40 am
Posted by Ben Trovato
(16 messages posted)
Have you ran your up to date anti-virus software recently? Also run adaware or spybot
to remove spyware. If that shows clear set to turn off hard drives after x secs in
control panel/power options
On Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 10:59 am, Dirk Mouss wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows from Wildly Accessing your Hard Disk:
>When my computer is on and I'm not using it, the hard drive activity light repeatedly
>shows drive access every two seconds or so, continually. The fragmentation % of
>my hard drive seems to go up fast, even with minimal usage. Last night I used Speed
> Disk from NU and though it usually winds up with a 1-2% fragmemtation residual,
>nowadays it's more like 5-6% after sitting overnight without my use. Is there some
>way to stop this continual undirected disk access? Thanks!
>
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