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Plotting File placement on hard-drive

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by russellbrown

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I am using DISKMON to show disk activity and need to relate the reported sector address to specific files.
I need this so that I can find why explorer.exe sometimes goes balistic (up to 40% cpu on a p4-2.4ghz).
Does anyone know of any software that can display starting disk sector versus filename?

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by russellbrown

I have done an analysis of a 3 minute DISKMON sample on the system drive - there were 6 reads and 1126 writes (6.87 writes per second), over 60% of the writes had a length of 8 bytes. It has certainly got my curiosity going.
I have set various options to minimise paging - I have 1GB of RAM, so it is not paging.

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