I am looking for a way to find out why my secondary, non-SSD disc keeps spinning up from hibernation. It doesn't seem like a specific interval after it shuts down and I tried looking at the resource monitor when it happened, but nothing shows up for its partitions reading or writing.
Is there a way to actually log all disc activity?
Incidentally, I'd love to have this function for Windows start-up as well. Something to see the order in which programs are launched, right up to the full shell.
Seeing how suddenly, out of nowhere, on startup restored windows are flashing from having their focus overridden, where they haven't done that for ages. I'd disabled the...I think it was called steal focus timing or something like that, long ago. Can't find that on google again, to check if it reactivated itself somehow.
Oh, hey, it's not dead yet. So I'mma bump.
there is a set time after which windows powers down drives, you can change it in the advanced power settings.
>>94039
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's powered down. But, without me even sitting at the PC, it frequently (well, infrequently, as in with no discernible set interval after powering down) powers back up. And I can't find out what's accessing the disc, so I can prevent that from happening.
By the time I'm back to look at the resource monitor, to see what's writing/reading, it's stopped reading/writing. Besides, it seems the resource monitor only shows C drive activity.
>>94040
So just leave resource monitor open.
It lists the activity on any disk it's seen being accessed.
>>94057
This.
Maybe try turning off search indexing too.
>>94071
Well, no.
If Resource Monitor isn't open, how's it going to monitor any activity?
Most people never run Resource Monitor. It doesn't make sense to keep the service running the whole time just to catch a few events from when the GUI is closed.
>>94072
>If Resource Monitor isn't open, how's it going to monitor any activity?
I meant it's open and doesn't show any activity. Even if I can hear the disc writing/reading.
But it does show activity when I manually open a file on it.
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/271563-disk-activity-not-showing-up-resource-monitor.html
