This makes it difficult to tell which file or program is accessing your hard drive using DiskMon by itself. As you might expect, a good task manager is able to display which open process is accessing the hard drive and by how much in addition to CPU and memory usage etc.
There are many such tools around that can do this, including Process Explorer, Process Hacker, System Explorer, and others. While installing Anvir free be careful to avoid the adware during install, or preferably use the portable version. Run the Anvir. The read and write load on the disk in Kilobytes per second is already shown in its own column and displayed with a yellow background which becomes brighter the higher the activity.
Click on the column header to sort by the most or least active. Obviously being a task manager you have the options to manipulate and get more information on the running processes causing high disk usage. If you want extra detail like separate reads and writes from something like Process Explorer , you need to manually add the columns to the display. Something many users tend to overlook is Windows often has what you need right there built into the operating system, sadly most of the tools are hidden away or are not well documented and therefore remain relatively unknown.
Thankfully Resource Monitor is easy to get to, simply open Windows Task Manager, click the Performance tab and then the Resource Monitor button at the bottom. Alternatively type Resmon into Start or the Run box. Windows Resource Monitor is actually quite comprehensive and besides displaying disk activity, it also shows information for CPU, network and system memory activity, all of which can be shown at the same time or separately for more detail.
To concentrate on the activity of the system drives only, select the Disk tab. Ticking one of the boxes next to a process at the top will populate the Disk Activity area with just the activity for that process, multiples can be ticked if you wish.
Graphs on the right will show how much your drives are being used in real time. A less intrusive way to keep an eye on programs accessing your drives while not having opened windows obscuring your desktop, is to show the activity from the system tray. Install Process Hacker or run the portable version and launch the program.
If you select just one option it can be switched between different histories from the tray, more than one selection here will open more than one tray icon at once.
Minimize the Process Hacker window and then hover over its tray icon to see the process disk activity list popup. If you wish to keep the window open while doing other things, click the pin button. The list auto updates every second by default it can be changed from 0. Download Process Hacker. Note disk 1 is the number of disk you want to zero out. Create a system repair disc in Windows 7 and then boot from it.
Wait for the Windows file loading process to complete, you will see System Recovery Options window. Set your preference language and keyboard input , then click Next. Choose Use recovery tools that can help fix problems starting windows. Select an operating system to repair and click Next. Note: If you are using another operating system like Windows XP, it will not be listed here. Note: This is a fully functional command prompt and contains most of the commands you may use, thus you can use the full format command or clean all command.
To write all zeros to hard drive, select Wipe disk and click Next. In the wiping method window, select Fill sectors with zero and click Start.
According to Microsoft, full format was the same as a quick format in the Windows XP or earlier version of Windows, but included a disk scan for bad sectors. Thus, even if your perform a full format in Windows XP and earlier version, the format command does not write zeros to the whole disk. But if you use Windows Vista or newer version, the full format command will write zeros to the whole disk. The zero format method before Windows Vista has the ability to scan the bad sectors, but you probably zero out it.
In Windows Vista and newer version of Windows, the disk scan of bad sectors is replaced by filling sectors with zeros and it will reveal any bad sectors that could not be written to, but not fix it. There are different methods in zero fill hard drive utility to wipe disk, such as, Peter Gutmann, fill sectors with random data, DoD Please remember to create a file backup or system backup in advance, because all your data will be deleted and cannot be recovered after disk wipe.
You are able to delete all partitions once and it supports more wiping methods. In addition, you can use it as continuous data protection to ensure the security of your data. Content of this article: What does write zeros to hard drive mean? Why zero fill a hard drive? Windows 7: does formatting a disk actually write zeros to it? Do you need any more help? You can wack on this a bit.
Should narrow it down for most. Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. StephenKitt Huh. The asker mentioned Debian so I've changed it to a link to the Debian package. Regarding disabling the spinning down: wouldn't that in itself cause the HD to wear out faster? I mean: it's never ever "resting" as long as the system is on then?
Which is, of course, crazy because concern over temperature is one of the reasons for idling a drive. It's a long debate regarding whether it's better to leave drives running or to spin them down. Personally I believe it's best to leave them running - I turn my computer off at night and when I go out but other than that I never spin my drives down. Some people prefer to spin them down, say, at night if they're leaving the computer on or if the computer's idle for a long time, and in such cases the advantage of spinning them down for a few hours versus leaving them running is debatable.
What's never good though is when the hard drive repeatedly spins down and up again in a short period of time. Note also that spinning the drive down after it's been idle for a few hours is a bit silly, because if it's been idle for a few hours then it's likely to be used again within an hour. In that case, it would seem better to spin the drive down promptly if it's idle like, within 10 minutes , but it's also possible for the drive to be idle for a few minutes when someone is using the computer and is likely to need the drive again soon.
But I still hear the noise after running this command. Worryingly, it's the drive I use to back up my internal SSD Show 1 more comment. You can configure smart daemon not to scan USB disks, most good linux distributions do this by default.
In case you need to narrow it down to an exact disk use the following: run lsblk and look up the device number. I guess this tests for the moment the command is run. How do I get it to monitor over a period of time, like, say, 10 seconds? I found it: jrs-s.
It's only going to flush data if there's any data to flush. If the disk is really not in use, then there isn't going to be any buffered data to flush.
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