Thanks for the reply. I have been running Vista on the machine for a few
months. Would that still be what is happening?
I thought about turning indexing services off. So I did anhd it cut down
most of it. Now it is just a short flash about every 1 to 2 sec.
-Sid
"Dustin Harper" wrote:
Quote:
> The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the
> drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you
> have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a
> lot of hard drive activity.
>
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> Dustin Harper
> dharper@xxxxxx
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>
> Sid wrote: Quote:
> > I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a
> > dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with
> > plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip,
> > 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor
> > or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing
> > and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half
> > and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was
> > installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this
> > after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using
> > Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default.
> > I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before
> > but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I
> > had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much
> > for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the
> > sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory.
> > Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need
> > to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem.
> > Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid
> > saxonsystems@xxxxxx
>