Hard disk never stops working...

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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?
 
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
 
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?
|
 
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
 
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
 
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