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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a
dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip, 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default. I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory. Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem. Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid -- Sid "The farce be with you" |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive duringid
The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the
drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a lot of hard drive activity. -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com Sid wrote: I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip, 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default. I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory. Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem. Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin
Thanks for the reply. I have been running Vista on the machine for a few
months. Would that still be what is happening? I thought about turning indexing services off. So I did anhd it cut down most of it. Now it is just a short flash about every 1 to 2 sec. -Sid "Dustin Harper" wrote: The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a lot of hard drive activity. -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com Sid wrote: I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip, 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default. I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory. Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem. Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin
On Nov 13, 3:00 am, Sid Saxon
wrote: Thanks for the reply. I have been running Vista on the machine for a few months. Would that still be what is happening? I thought about turning indexing services off. So I did anhd it cut down most of it. Now it is just a short flash about every 1 to 2 sec. -Sid "Dustin Harper" wrote: The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a lot of hard drive activity. -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com Sid wrote: I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip, 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default. I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory. Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem. Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You might also try stopping the Superfetch service. Set it to manual start instead of automatic. |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin
Sid,
I have this same situation on a fresh install of XP Pro - no drivers or any new software yet. I've haven't seen this on any of the workstations at work. It looks like many people have this problem, by looking at other posts. Did you find a way to stop the HDD writes? Justin "Sid Saxon" wrote: Thanks for the reply. I have been running Vista on the machine for a few months. Would that still be what is happening? I thought about turning indexing services off. So I did anhd it cut down most of it. Now it is just a short flash about every 1 to 2 sec. -Sid "Dustin Harper" wrote: The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a lot of hard drive activity. -- Dustin Harper http://www.vistarip.com Sid wrote: I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip, 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default. I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory. Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem. Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the time when I'm not doing anything on the computer. What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this? -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
You don't stop it!
Vista is nearly always doing something. It is much easier to get used to it. It is not particularly harmful, and mostly it is beneficial. It may be managing a paging file, or it may be tracking program usage so that most used programs will be loaded on the fastest part of the disk during defrag, it may be defragging, or perhaps Windows Defender is running, or the upgrade manager, or the reliability tracking indicator, or it may be making shadow copies, or phoning home, or checking for updates, or checking for problem solutions, or.... You get the idea! It may not even be Vista running, as today nearly every program wants to check for updates. Instead of stopping what you are doing to run all these utilities, Vista runs them in the background with no intervention on your part and also almost no impact on the processor, and you go on about your business with no worries. "4evrnyt" wrote in message ... I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the time when I'm not doing anything on the computer. What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this? -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
On another point, you generally run a 64 bit version for improved
performance. Turning off prefetch is a sure way to slow down the system. If you are performance oriented, enable it. Have fun. "4evrnyt" wrote in message ... I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the time when I'm not doing anything on the computer. What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this? -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
How much memory do you have? If you have 2GB or less then I am not
surprised the hard drive runs constantly and it still will no matter what you turn off. It is paging to virtual memory on the hard drive. The solution is to add more memory so that the system does not have to keep moving things back and forth. "4evrnyt" wrote in message ... I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the time when I'm not doing anything on the computer. What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this? -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in |
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Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id
3gb. it usually starts when the computer is just sitting idle. Internet Explorer doesnt' seem to interrupt it but If I start a game it usually stops. If I go into sleep mode, the hard drive will continue to run almost immediately after waking it up. i also have turned off powerboost. Colin Barnhorst;3727131 Wrote: How much memory do you have? If you have 2GB or less then I am not surprised the hard drive runs constantly and it still will no matter what you turn off. It is paging to virtual memory on the hard drive. The solution is to add more memory so that the system does not have to keep moving things back and forth. "4evrnyt" wrote in message ... I am having the same issue with Vista 64-bit but I've turned off indexing and superfetch and the hard drive is still running all the time when I'm not doing anything on the computer. What is there to disable to get it to stop doing this? -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in -- 4evrnyt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4evrnyt's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48926 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=846798 http://forums.techarena.in |
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