Which file is my HD reading/writing

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snorkyller

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How could I know exactly where (which files) on the hard drive is my computer reading/writing at a specific moment?

I don't have any security or infection problem. I couldn't see on which forum thread I should post this.

Thank you.
 
Ok let ask the question differently:

How to know which files a process (or software) is currently accessing?

I don't see that I can do that using the resource monitor that is accessible via the task manager. It allows to know how much data a process has accessed, but not which files.
Is there really no no available tool that allows to do that?!
 
Go to Task Manager, and go to the Processes Tab. You then need to sort the processes by CPU usage. You can do this by clicking the heading to the column headed CPU. (If it is not there, go to View, Select Columns, and tick CPU - make sure it is just CPU and not CPU Time as this will be irrelevant. OK the window.)

If you have done this correctly, then the Processes will be jittering about with the most CPU heavy at the top, if it isnt, try clicking the CPU header again.

Processes with a high CPU usage could indicate reading or writing to the harddrive, as writing to the harddrive is processed in the CPU. If this is the case, you can then do a Windows Search of the file name, such as "Jhi_service.exe" (Leave out the *32 however). If not, try looking the process name up on Google.

If this does not help, you will have to search Google for it, as I am unaware of a program that can identify this.
 
Thank you Ashley for your answer, but this not what I needed.

What I needed to know is which files are accessed, not which file is accessing them.
If firefox.exe is reading the HD, which file is it reading?
 
snorkyller said:
Thank you Ashley for your answer, but this not what I needed.

What I needed to know is which files are accessed, not which file is accessing them.
If firefox.exe is reading the HD, which file is it reading?
Click to expand...

Firefox would be reading the files in C:\Users\%Username%\Appdata\%Firefox Local Area% and C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozillia\Firefox\...
 
You can do that by using FileSystemWatcher class.
With it you can know what is happening to EVERY file on the disk such as:

-file is opened
-file is deleted
-file is renamed

And so on...
Only this will require some programming knowledge,but it's not hard.
 
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