Vista - Hard drives work all the time

Are there any known facts about unusual hard drives activity when computer
is running Vista?
I have AMD Athlon 64 X2 and two RAID 0: 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates.

Thanks

If it is a new computer, it is just indexing tha whole system, and will
settle down.

"Markgoldin" wrote:

> Are there any known facts about unusual hard drives activity when computer
> is running Vista?
> I have AMD Athlon 64 X2 and two RAID 0: 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates.
>
> Thanks
>

It is new, but I dont have too much data or apps. installed.
Hope, it will settle down.

"Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If it is a new computer, it is just indexing tha whole system, and will
> settle down.
>
> "Markgoldin" wrote:
>
>> Are there any known facts about unusual hard drives activity when
>> computer
>> is running Vista?
>> I have AMD Athlon 64 X2 and two RAID 0: 2 Raptors and 2 Seagates.
>>
>> Thanks
>>

1/ indexing

2/ defragging

3/ shuffling files around to speed boot up

4/ pre-loading files into memory it "thinks" you're going to use - again to
speed things up

In other words, it's doing good stuff. Most of the disk activity is due to
the indexing, which - as the previous poster said - will stop after a few
days.

Why does disk activity bother you? It's not like it hurts or anything, is
it?

Steve

people don't like it....

Its irritating... extremely irritating


"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> 1/ indexing
>
> 2/ defragging
>
> 3/ shuffling files around to speed boot up
>
> 4/ pre-loading files into memory it "thinks" you're going to use - again
> to speed things up
>
> In other words, it's doing good stuff. Most of the disk activity is due
> to the indexing, which - as the previous poster said - will stop after a
> few days.
>
> Why does disk activity bother you? It's not like it hurts or anything, is
> it?
>
> Steve
>

Tiberius wrote:
> people don't like it....
>
> Its irritating... extremely irritating

--------------------------------------------

It stops after a few days. It only irritates those who don't know what
or why it's happening.
People like you.
Frank

It also reminds those of us who've had viruses and whatnot in the past of how our machines sounded as those viruses and spyware programs were munching away. I'm forever worrying that I've let some kind of trojan in. There's nothing there when I test for same, but...that's what makes me nervous when I see the hard drive constantly going. I had no idea Vista was such a busy little OS...

Cyn

"Tiberius" <321@123.32> wrote in message news:Ol4ArCQpHHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
people don't like it....

Its irritating... extremely irritating


"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:%23CaZLHPpHHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 1/ indexing
>
> 2/ defragging
>
> 3/ shuffling files around to speed boot up
>
> 4/ pre-loading files into memory it "thinks" you're going to use - again
> to speed things up
>
> In other words, it's doing good stuff. Most of the disk activity is due
> to the indexing, which - as the previous poster said - will stop after a
> few days.
>
> Why does disk activity bother you? It's not like it hurts or anything, is
> it?
>
> Steve
>

It has been more then a few days. More like 20 times more.

"Frank" <fb@nospam.cmm> wrote in message
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> Tiberius wrote:
>> people don't like it....
>>
>> Its irritating... extremely irritating
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> It stops after a few days. It only irritates those who don't know what or
> why it's happening.
> People like you.
> Frank

Yes and it will continue forever if you keep shifting around files..
Also you will see that it will most probably create erroneous results if you
move around files or delete them too often.

Then you will have to redo the indexing from scratch! lol its a nightmare..
that's why I say indexing is stupid.

disable indexing from the services... or you can also isolate it to only
specific folders..
because if you have lots of documents for example in my documents it will
take ages...

I had indexing working for 15 days to do mine.. and it never finished
totally for the reasons I said above.

Ignore frank.. he doesn't know much about computers, he has a limited
understanding and experience
of how vista reacts under various scenarios. I wonder if he ever uses the
computer he has for anything else
than posting insults in this newsgroup.


"Markgoldin" <markgoldin@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> It has been more then a few days. More like 20 times more.
>
> "Frank" <fb@nospam.cmm> wrote in message
> news:uD3ZoyRpHHA.3320@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Tiberius wrote:
>>> people don't like it....
>>>
>>> Its irritating... extremely irritating
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> It stops after a few days. It only irritates those who don't know what or
>> why it's happening.
>> People like you.
>> Frank
>

Its a freakish horrid monster OS....

Disable everything that causes hard disks to thrash.. I did.


"Cyn" <cdagnalmyron@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:82A484D6-3FBF-4DA0-A4BE-5DDCB6745558@microsoft.com...
It also reminds those of us who've had viruses and whatnot in the past of
how our machines sounded as those viruses and spyware programs were munching
away. I'm forever worrying that I've let some kind of trojan in. There's
nothing there when I test for same, but...that's what makes me nervous when
I see the hard drive constantly going. I had no idea Vista was such a busy
little OS...

Cyn

"Tiberius" <321@123.32> wrote in message
news:Ol4ArCQpHHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
people don't like it....

Its irritating... extremely irritating


"Steve Thackery" <thack@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:%23CaZLHPpHHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 1/ indexing
>
> 2/ defragging
>
> 3/ shuffling files around to speed boot up
>
> 4/ pre-loading files into memory it "thinks" you're going to use - again
> to speed things up
>
> In other words, it's doing good stuff. Most of the disk activity is due
> to the indexing, which - as the previous poster said - will stop after a
> few days.
>
> Why does disk activity bother you? It's not like it hurts or anything, is
> it?
>
> Steve
>