hard disk parks during use

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I have a shuttle desktop with a dual boot Win ME and Win
2000 on one partioned hard drive.
The Win ME works fine but the Win 2000 has a problem that
it seems to work well but during high levels of disk
activity the disk makes the sound of 'parking' i.e. the
sound it normally makes just before computer switch off.
The task monitor indicates that when this sound occurrs
the CPU usage increases to 100% just for a second or so.
The net result is that the computer is slowed a lot and
also it can't be doing the hard disk any good.
Any help would be most welcome.
Thanks.
 
Sounds strange. Installing two OS's on the same partition presents quite a
problem in of itself.

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| I have a shuttle desktop with a dual boot Win ME and Win
| 2000 on one partioned hard drive.
| The Win ME works fine but the Win 2000 has a problem that
| it seems to work well but during high levels of disk
| activity the disk makes the sound of 'parking' i.e. the
| sound it normally makes just before computer switch off.
| The task monitor indicates that when this sound occurrs
| the CPU usage increases to 100% just for a second or so.
| The net result is that the computer is slowed a lot and
| also it can't be doing the hard disk any good.
| Any help would be most welcome.
| Thanks.
 
Steve - the disk "chattering", if that's what it is, could be a quick
series of access retries such as might happen if there's some sort of
bad spot on the oxide surface, or a very fast series of accesses that
might be causing intermittent thrashing perhaps involving the pagefile.
It does sound strange. You might run a diagnostic, downloadable from the
drive manufacturer, just in case. Is the drive badly fragmented? Nearly
full? Is there a W2k app that really stresses the drive more than any ME
apps? Can you isolate the noise to a single app? The bursty high CPU
usage is a bit of a puzzle, unless some app is prefetching small records
like crazy while processing like crazy in its timeslice.
 
Steve said:
I have a shuttle desktop with a dual boot Win ME and Win
2000 on one partioned hard drive.
The Win ME works fine but the Win 2000 has a problem that
it seems to work well but during high levels of disk
activity the disk makes the sound of 'parking' i.e. the
sound it normally makes just before computer switch off.
The task monitor indicates that when this sound occurrs
the CPU usage increases to 100% just for a second or so.
The net result is that the computer is slowed a lot and
also it can't be doing the hard disk any good.
Any help would be most welcome.
Thanks.
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No sir, a dual boot of WinME and W2K in the same partition is a damaged
installation. In fact, this is true for any 2 OS where the operating sustems
are not related. Both OS versions can be installed in seperate %windir%
folders but rely on the same entities in program files directory.

A dual-boot implies seperate partitions.
 
Steve: Two readers took your "one partitioned HD " as one partition for dual
boot.
All suggestion from Dan are relevant, the omen for bad HD sector should be
taken serious. I used to have the same problem. I moved the pagefile to
another partition to isolate the problem. but soon, it became evident the HD
was broken and bad area expanded very fast. backup your data first before it
is too late.

Vince
 
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The proof will be later, in the pudding.
We hope it turns out well...perhaps we'll hear rrom Steve....
 
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