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Vista Hard Drive

  • 18-12-2007 9:01pm
    #1
    kryan1
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭


    Ok, have a Dual boot system, Vista and XP where i have the Main HD Partitioned C D And E With Vista On C And XP on D. Then i have a 750GB on H and a 300GB on G. No in Vista only i can hear a Disk Starting up and slowing down, when i am in XP these does not happen. I thought it may have something to do with power managment, so in Power options i i set it to High Performance? I can still hear the Disc Slowing down and stopping and then starting up. Has anyone had this issue and know how to solve it?
    Thanks
    Kevin


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  • #2
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    You have to actually set the drive to not spin down in the power options. As far as I know the default profiles do not set the drive to never spin down.


  • #3
    kryan1
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭kryan1


    where is the option to do that? Is it in d power options window, or is it in the properties of the individual drive's? Thanks for the reply. Kevin.


  • #4
    kryan1
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭kryan1


    kryan1 wrote: »
    Ok, have a Dual boot system, Vista and XP where i have the Main HD Partitioned C D And E With Vista On C And XP on D. Then i have a 750GB on H and a 300GB on G. Now in Vista only i can hear a Disk Starting up and slowing down, when i am in XP these does not happen. I thought it may have something to do with power managment, so in Power options i i set it to High Performance? I can still hear the Disc Slowing down and stopping and then starting up. Has anyone had this issue and know how to solve it?
    Thanks
    Kevin

    Has anyone had this problem or know of a solution to it?


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Yes it's a known problem
    I've heard of this where the drive stops about once a minute which is bad news because hard drives like light bulbs won't power on/off forever. yes it should have been fixed because it will shorten the life of the drive / increase the chance of loosing all data on it.

    can't remember the workaround or if a patch has been released


  • #6
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    It's in Power Options (advanced section) as far as I remember, you get a tree structure of all power using things like monitor USB hard drives etc and you just change it in there, at least that's where I changed it and my drives no longer click on and off all the time.

    I'm not at home with my Vista machine now so I can't get a screenie. :p


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  • #7
    kryan1
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭kryan1


    Does anyone know of a solution to this yet? Any advice or tips greatly appreciated.
    Kevin


  • #8
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,063 ✭✭✭BKtje


    My drives used to do this as well but i haven't noticed it in a long time now that you mention it.

    Are you fully patched up?


  • #9
    kryan1
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭kryan1


    B-K-DzR wrote: »
    My drives used to do this as well but i haven't noticed it in a long time now that you mention it.

    Are you fully patched up?

    i think i am anyway. All the updates are installed and still having the problem. Thanks for the responce.


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