Does the Hard Drive access ever stop in Vista?

I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However, the
disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.

This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right under
the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual range is
annoying.

XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long periods
on a similar laptop.

Comments or solutions appreciated...

"terca novie" <> wrote in message
news:496e82c3$...
> suggestion 1) Use the much superior XP, vista is a power hungry badly
> designed OS.

Translation: terca novie who is really measekite, has no idea how to use
Vista


> suggestion 2) put a sticker or tape on the led so you will hide or dim it

Translation: put a sticker on your head and walk down the middle of the road


> suggestion 3) open task manager> performance > resource monitor and find
> what the heck is accessing the disk all the time and disable it.

Translation: measekite doesn't know how to do this task.

have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long
>> periods on a similar laptop.
>>
>> Comments or solutions appreciated...
>

I think this regular polling is something to do with the automatic detection
of CD/DVD insertion.

The only thing is, I'm not sure how to fix it.

Is your CD/DVD drive on the same IDE interface as your hard disk? I always
keep them on separate interfaces and have never had this problem. But
something is sitting there in the back of my mind - perhaps I've read about
this problem in a computer mag, or something.

Also, I think you can switch off Autoplay-on-insertion altogether. Perhaps
this will stop the polling.

SteveT

Telstar;939721 Wrote:
> I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However
> th
> disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second
>
> This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is righ
> unde
> the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual range i
> annoying
>
> XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for lon
> period
> on a similar laptop
>
> Comments or solutions appreciated..

The hled light flashing regularly has to do with the advancement o
PreFetch first seen with XP and later the SuperFetch process of keepin
the most used programs loaded in low profile into the memory. The ide
was to see a reduction of time when going to start up a partiall
preloaded application

One of the side benefits was including some maintainence services lik
the disk defragment tool. After a long period of time a Vista volum
will see 0% fragmentation while older versions may tend to see over 10
if the tool was never set on a periodic schedule

--
Night Hawk

Night Hawk;1136102 Wrote:
> Telstar;939721 Wrote:
> > I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing
> However,
> > the
> > disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.
> >
> > This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right
> > under
> > the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual rang
> is
> > annoying.
> >
> > XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long
> > periods
> > on a similar laptop.
> >
> > Comments or solutions appreciated...
>
> The hled light flashing regularly has to do with the advancement of
> PreFetch first seen with XP and later the SuperFetch process o
> keeping
> the most used programs loaded in low profile into the memory. The idea
> was to see a reduction of time when going to start up a partially
> preloaded application.
>
> One of the side benefits was including some maintainence services like
> the disk defragment tool. After a long period of time a Vista volume
> will see 0% fragmentation while older versions may tend to see ove
> 10%
> if the tool was never set on a periodic schedule.
>
>
> --
> Night Hawk

What interface is your hard drive connected to? I would suggest SATAI
if it is not already..

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"Steve Thackery" <> wrote in message
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>I think this regular polling is something to do with the automatic
>detection of CD/DVD insertion.
>
> The only thing is, I'm not sure how to fix it.
>
> Is your CD/DVD drive on the same IDE interface as your hard disk? I
> always keep them on separate interfaces and have never had this
> problem. But something is sitting there in the back of my mind -
> perhaps I've read about this problem in a computer mag, or something.
>
> Also, I think you can switch off Autoplay-on-insertion altogether.
> Perhaps this will stop the polling.
>
> SteveT

Certainly true for some Dell desktops but then it's not visible all the
time so the once a second blip is not a problem.

Tom

Tom Allen;940110 Wrote:
> "Steve Thackery" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in messag
> news:OFackFrdJHA.4684@xxxxxx> > >
> > >I think this regular polling is something to do with the automati
> > >detection of CD/DVD insertion
> >
> > > The only thing is, I'm not sure how to fix it
> >
> > > Is your CD/DVD drive on the same IDE interface as your hard disk?
> > > always keep them on separate interfaces and have never had thi
> > > problem. But something is sitting there in the back of my mind
> > > perhaps I've read about this problem in a computer mag, or something
> >
> > > Also, I think you can switch off Autoplay-on-insertion altogether
> > > Perhaps this will stop the polling
> >
> > > SteveT > >
>
> Certainly true for some Dell desktops but then it's not visible al
> th
> time so the once a second blip is not a problem
>
> To

On a custom built system here the blue led reflects off of the door o
the cabinet section of the desk the main case is in. That sees a doubl
blip every few seconds on a system with more then hard drive.

Every so often at night you might think a flashing blue light? What'
going on? when you just happen to catch the reflection off the side o
you.

On the previous build with only one the same was still there too. Yo
have to remember that Windows has background processes accessing th
drive while you are busy with something else

--
Night Hawk

Telstar wrote:
> I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However,
> the disk is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.
>
> This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right
> under the left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual
> range is annoying.
>
> XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long
> periods on a similar laptop.
>
> Comments or solutions appreciated...
Duct tape is certainly a workaround or try moving the computer case
itself. A better approach is to investigate why the hard disk is
thrashing. How much free memory do you have, both in RAM and on the hard
disk?

Bill

Shut down the Indexing

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"Bill Sharpe" <> wrote in message
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> Telstar wrote:
>> I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However, the disk
>> is still be accessed almost exactly once per second.
>>
>> This would not bother me, but the light on this HP computer is right under the
>> left side of the screen...and anything flashing in visual range is annoying.
>>
>> XP does not have this regular access behavior and goes dark for long periods on a
>> similar laptop.
>>
>> Comments or solutions appreciated...
> Duct tape is certainly a workaround or try moving the computer case itself. A
> better approach is to investigate why the hard disk is thrashing. How much free
> memory do you have, both in RAM and on the hard disk?
>
> Bill

Vista newbie. My HDD light also flickers without ceasing, at roughly 1Hz. I
do run Indexing, but this also happened when I had Indexing turned off.

RAM (>1Gig) and HDD space (26 GB) are not a problem. I too would appreciate
knowing why this is happening.