hd accesses when idle in win2k sp1

[Taylorm]

anyone have any idea what is goin on? I know for sure i dont have a trojan or virus on my comp because i have ran latest virus definitions for both norton and avp.

What is goin on?? makin me crazy. also no programs are open either!

 

[DaveJ]

Fire up Task Manager (Ctrl-alt-del, Task Manager) and in the menu options there should be a setting to customize what is viewed. In that menu, select IO Writes and/or IO Reads. Go back to TaskManager, and you should be able to see which processes are accessing the disk... hopefully that should help you narrow it down.

Sorry for the vague answer, I don't have Win2K in front of me ATM... 🙂

Dave

 

[Taylorm]

hey thanks i never knew u could view that. well i think i found the problem but i dont know how to get rid of it.

there is a process called csrss.exe that has over 1million (yes 1 million) IO READS.

anyone know what i can do? task manager wont let me end process. it says it is a critical system process.

thanks in advance

 

[DaveJ]

That's probably because it IS a critical process... 🙂 You should be looking for a process that is actively reading or writing to the disk, besides that csrss.exe...

Dave

 

[AndyHui]

You can reduce some of the disk access by disabling Disk IO Logging.

Bring up a command prompt and type diskperf -n

 

[ahfung]

Maybe u've enabled indexing, or compressing old unused files in background?

 

[Taylorm]

i have no idea. how do i check and see