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I am running windows 7 64x amd architecture, 4GB ram, 1TB hard drive at i think 7100 RPM.
this problem has bothered me before, the hard drive would never stop reading/writing data. i pinpointed it to the system process and from there did some research (services run under the system process apparently,) and tried the solutions i found. most of them referred to the indexing or the superfetch stuff but i know that doesn't apply to me because i have them disabled.
from watching the resource monitor i have found that the I/O of the drive often lies in the 20-40 MB/s range (WTF this is a HUGE number for both idling and working I/O!!½!).
before i could restart my computer to fix the issue but now when i try that it just becomes worse. i have restarted my pc 4 times today and the disk i/o is only increasing or at best stays the same...
even when I'm working on the computer like I'm doing now it's still super slow, but once a program is running and don't require a lot of IO e.g. Chrome i can actually do some decent stuff on it.
please help me i can't do anything on my pc when its behaving like this.
Edit: apparently its some kind of temporary file that's being temporarily written to all the time and another suggestions said that i had run out of RAM and the system was using the disk as some backup memory or something, that's not true though. i have a whole 1GB free in my ram (that's at least what task manager tells me)
any ideas? i have no clue whatsoever this can be...
(i also noticed a strange patern in the ram usage over time, it seems to clear up some ram only to load the stuff back into memory again or something.
what happens in safe mode? have you ran a spyware/virus scan? – Hefewe1zen – 2014-01-17T00:45:05.333
You need to expand the column titled file to be sure. My guess your try to have a bunch of programs open and you are use a bunch of swap file because you have run out real memory. – cybernard – 2014-01-17T01:26:30.247
Try Error checking the drive ie, right click on the drive->properties->Tools tab. The drive might be developing hard to read/write sectors occupied by system files. – miggy – 2014-01-17T02:59:53.940
click the checkbox of SYSTEM and look which files it does access. – magicandre1981 – 2014-01-17T06:00:10.287
im going to try all of the above and see what happens, thanks for all the suggestions so far. – user3118949 – 2014-01-17T20:13:28.440