I need a program to ID HDD activity

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J.P.

Is there a simple program that can identify the program that is creating hard-drive activity as it is occurring? I need one that will work with 64-bit Windows 7. Or is there a utility or something already in Windows 7 that can do this?
 
Quote from J.P.:

I don't believe Task Manager identifies disk drive activity by source. Correct me if I'm wrong, but thanks.
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If you can find and show an example of a source being utilized from the HDD and not showing up on task mgr, I'd be interested to see it. I assume you are referring to source as the running process name which can be located via search, rather than the absolute source path.

I suppose an example of not showing an active area of HDD activity might be something like defrag running and tsk mgr not displaying portions of drive being accessed.

edit: ok, looked at above. If you are referring to literal activity of all read/write actions and their location on the disk, the diskmon sounds like a good option.

Wonder how much of a resource hog it would be to run full time in the background, any ideas zgtrader?
 
Quote from dtrader98:

If you can find and show an example of a source being utilized from the HDD and not showing up on task mgr, I'd be interested to see it. I assume you are referring to source as the running process name which can be located via search, rather than the absolute source path.

I suppose an example of not showing an active area of HDD activity might be something like defrag running and tsk mgr not displaying portions of drive being accessed.

edit: ok, looked at above. If you are referring to literal activity of all read/write actions and their location on the disk, the diskmon sounds like a good option.

Wonder how much of a resource hog it would be to run full time in the background, any ideas zgtrader?
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OK, I understand. Thanks again.
 
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