Perfmon.exe May Display an Incorrect Value for Disk % Idle Time (307899)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

This article was previously published under Q307899

SYMPTOMS

Perfmon.exe may display an incorrect value for the Disk % Idle Time counter. Programs that rely on this counter may also report incorrect values.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time    Version        Size    File name   
   -------------------------------------------------------
   09/28/2001  14:54   5.0.2195.4436  7,568   Diskperf.sys

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbOSWin2000fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB307899