(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:05 pm
Post subject: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id Add to elertz Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>hardware_devices (more info?)
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
saxonsystems.TakeThisOut@comcast.net
--
Sid
"The farce be with you"
(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:29 pm
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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.
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
> saxonsystems.DeleteThis@comcast.net
(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:00 am
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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
> dharper.DeleteThis@vistarip.com
> 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
> > saxonsystems.DeleteThis@comcast.net
>
(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:48 pm
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
On Nov 13, 3:00 am, Sid Saxon <SidSa....RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com>
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
> > dhar....RemoveThis@vistarip.com
> >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
> > > saxonsyst....RemoveThis@comcast.net- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
You might also try stopping the Superfetch service. Set it to manual
start instead of automatic.
(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive durin Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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
> > dharper.TakeThisOut@vistarip.com
> > 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
> > > saxonsystems.TakeThisOut@comcast.net
> >
(Msg. 6) Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:52 pm
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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?
(Msg. 7) Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:52 pm
Post subject: Re: Hard drive light constantly flashing ,reading hard drive during id Add to elertz [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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.
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> 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?
>
>
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:52 pm
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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.
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> 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?
>
>
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