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06-27-2003, 11:49 AM
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why is my HD spinning all the time?
Hey there,
on my WD 80 gig with 8 megs cache windows xp 512 megs RAM athlon 2100xp asus a7v333 via chipset mb my hd light flickers a lot and is on a lot. It does spin down after 3 minutes of idle because I set it that way under 'Power Usage Options." But I thought that if the memory is not full and things are loaded into ram, that it doesn't need to access to HD all the time. I have file indexing turned off too, by the way. I have Office 2000 installed -- is that the problem? Do I need to change the page file/virtual memory settings (it is set to 1000 right now -- twice my RAM)? If I don't sort this out I am re-formatting and seeing exactly when in the reinstallation of all my software it starts to spin all the time; i suspect it is software related. It concerns me because of wear and tear on the HD, and also it increases system noise considerably. thanks for the help! --RD |
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06-27-2003, 12:49 PM
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My XP system never seems to allow the drive to spin down either, and every once in a while, there's a flurry of activity, which I believe is the recovery point processing.
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06-27-2003, 04:46 PM
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I would advise you to leave it running all the time, all that starting and stopping is harder on a drive than constant running.
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07-12-2003, 07:35 PM
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good point glc, I'll stop worrying about it.
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