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What is causing hard drive grinding?

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Mar 15, 20263508 views
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My windows (XP) hard drive grinds a lot and it negatively affects the performance of other applications. I have plenty of RAM and have already verified that this hard drive activity is not page file swap activity. I have also already looked in task manager to see if only one or two processes are ac…

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Fix for: What is causing hard drive grinding?

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Process Explorer. Make sure you show the columns that contain the I/O activity. Sometimes you may see a process running multiple services that causes the activity. In that case, it requires a bit of guesswork.

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