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How do I find out why my computer is thrashing its drive?
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Mar 15, 20268954 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I booted up today and my disk hasn't stopped thrashing in 20 minutes. CPU activity is flat; the only processes using anything right now are firefox and dwm.exe and it's ~1%. So I figured I'd look at what's happening with Procmon. svchost.exe is making thousands of requests per second. It looks like…
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From my Post on What’s making my disk thrash in Windows XP? Download Process Explorer from Microsoft / Sysinternals. Run it and click view > Select columns. Click on the Process Performance Tab, and select "I/O Reads" and "I/O Writes". You can do th…
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