Vista - Hard drive speed boosts

Great guide, thanks. I have a question related to the Optimize for Quick Removal option.

I've got that setting for my flash drive, meaning I never use the Safe Removal option. The annoying thing is everytime I plug the flash drive in, I get a "Do you want to scan and fix the flash drive" prompt. I always click continue without scanning anyway, is there a way to disable to prompt message?

Jim,

That is a good question. I do not know though.

You might also post this question in one of the forums or newsgroups to see if someone may know that has experienced this to.

Sorry,
Shawn

Mmkay, thanks though. I think I will post this.

Hey Brink, I have the same problem where I tick the box 'enable write caching' on my Raid setup, but after I close and come back it has been unticked? Any solutions yet?

Another question, when I was installing Vista64, I have my Raid drivers on a USB drive and tried loading them when I was prompted, but as soon as it has loaded up the files from the USB it made the install process freeze so I rebooted and tried without loading the drivers at all...and so far it has been fine. Question is I'm scared now as to whether I should have installed the chipset drivers once Vista had been installed? All seems to be working fine except this write caching business. Would loading the Chipset drivers perhaps fix this or increase performance at all? I have followed the rest of the guide and have done all the optomizations and it helped Alot...thanks for that man

Hi Harkin,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

Sorry, no solution yet. Some drive setups just do not support this option.

You might look in your RAID card or chip setup screen to see if there is a similar option to enable in it though.

Shawn

Cheers Brink..

Well as soon as I load the Raid drivers in Vista (Intel Matrix Drivers) I get a whole lot of BSOD's. My Raid setup is running really slow with the deafault drivers that Vista installed, I'm only getting 5.7 score for HDD performance whereas everything else is 5.9, I just don't expect that from a Raid0 setup

Actually wait that is wrong, I am getting 5.9, but I can tell that it is pretty slow, on XP the transfer rate was alot quicker, something just ain't working right. Plus I can't enable Write Caching. If I install the Chipset drivers for the motherboard could that help?

Always install the chipset drivers

I have the same problem where I tick the box 'enable write caching' on my Raid setup, but after I close and come back it has been unticked.
when i looked closer it's telling me the device does not allow it's cache to be modified.
is there a setting in the bios to change that?



thanks scrooge

I thought so, I was just a bit scared after the 1st time I did it and things went funny.. but I think that was down to the Raid drivers I installed in Vista. If I install the Motherboard Chipset drivers now and it goes wrong, is it recoverable? I haven't installed the Raid drivers in Vista because I know as a fact they don't work and gave me a million BSOD's...