Question:Closed 9 years ago. ?
Possible Duplicates: ?hard drive activity by program? ?What is causing hard drive grinding? ?
Once or twice a day my computer starts writing significantly hard to the hard drive, the HD led is ON and the performance hit is noticeable. A strange observation is that the Task Viewer does not show I/O activity – even Process Explorer shows no CPU activity and no I/O bytes read or written.
Is there a way to know which application is using the hard drive and how much data is it reading or writing?
Answer: Windows 7 and 8 has a nice and improved Resource Monitor that shows some nice stats about the current disk activity.
