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Cr0fty · 31 Jan 2008 at 16:05

Hey, my HDD is always running at 100%, and i'm just wondering if there is any particular reason for this, or anything that generally causes this?

rpstewart · 31 Jan 2008 at 16:08

100% of what?

Where are you getting that figure from?

sosrandom · 31 Jan 2008 at 16:33

You mean its always at full speed?

Schnippzle · 31 Jan 2008 at 16:42

If you mean its always running and you have vista installed you may wanna turn off indexing.

fobose · 31 Jan 2008 at 17:17

On the contrary, I would leave it turned, thats if your using vista.

maddness · 31 Jan 2008 at 17:45

Cr0fty said:
Hey, my HDD is always running at 100%, and i'm just wondering if there is any particular reason for this, or anything that generally causes this?

do you mean its constantly accessing?

it could be a lot of things, new install, how much memory you have?
whats running? anti virus programs, defragging...

Cr0fty · 31 Jan 2008 at 21:42

I have 2GB ram, and the hdd is at 100% constantly according to Nvidia Monitor.

Also, ram usage is quite high, i only have MSN and Firefox running usually...

Cr0fty · 1 Feb 2008 at 08:50

^Is it normal to have that many Svchost.exe's running?

rpstewart · 1 Feb 2008 at 09:12

Cr0fty said:
^Is it normal to have that many Svchost.exe's running?

Yes, most of the services listed in the Services part of control panel will run in their own instance of svchost.exe.

Going back to the disk question, do you know what the disk is accessing all the time? If you're running Vista the Performance and Reliability Monitor will tell you this. Is it obvious either audibly or from the access light tha the drive is accessing stuff constantly?

Pulse · 1 Feb 2008 at 09:24

Cr0fty said:
Also, ram usage is quite high, i only have MSN and Firefox running usually...

you're on vista... that eats more ram than a fat man can burgers