Hard disk never stops working...

[Jerry]

I am running Build 5384 on a 2.8 Ghz computer with 1GB RAM. My hard disk (40
GB, 10 GB free) never stops - something constantly happens there, even after
having left it on overnight. Any ideas what that might be?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Jerry,

It's very common on a new install while the system indexes everything, it
will eventually slow after a few days.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Jerry]

Thanks for your answer.
I had the same thoughts, but everything should be indexed by now.
I even tried ending the indexing services from the task manager,
and disk was still spinning. Must be something else?


| Hi Jerry,
|
| It's very common on a new install while the system indexes everything, it
| will eventually slow after a few days.
|
| --
| Best of Luck,
|
| Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
|
| Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
|
| | >I am running Build 5384 on a 2.8 Ghz computer with 1GB RAM. My hard disk
| >(40 GB, 10 GB free) never stops - something constantly happens there,
even
| >after having left it on overnight. Any ideas what that might be?
|

 

[John Jay Smith]

yes, vista is a pile of crap

It remindes me of one time I tried to install xp on a pentium 133

Vista loads too many things in memory... you would need a super
duper flashdrive to handle that, not spining hard drives

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

First you should run the latest available Vista which at this moment is RC1
5600.

It's Performance and Stability is much better than earlier builds ( no
Explorer hanging etc )

Hard Disk working all the time :

After install of Vista your HardDisk is fragmented a lot - therefore Vista
runs silently in background all the time
the defragmenter until the disk is in better shape.You can disable this
behaviour if you got to start-accessoirs-system, choose and run the
defragmentation-tool and select NOT to autorun. after a reboot it stops.

SBJ

 

[Jerry]

Thanks a lot. Installing RC1 seems to have solved it.