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W2K Constant Disk Access

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I've reinstalled W2K five times now. Each time after 2-3 days of use my primary SCSI drive begins constantly accessing itself for no reason. I look at the task manager and no processes are being used. Boot up takes for ever.

 

I have 256 megs so memory is not the issue. I tried different MB and SCSI bioses, didn't fix it. Linux, Win98 and Win95 all do not have this problem however. I never had this problem with the Beta. Anyone have any ideas?

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Check to see if the indexing service has started.

 

 

 

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Shrink

 

92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO!

 

PIII 450@504

Soltek SL67B Mobo with 128 mb pc100

20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR

SBlive Value

Voodooo3 3000 AGP

... and a bunch of USB Stuff

Windows 2000 Pro Retail

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Yea, I get this too, though I have no SCSI devices. Only on occasion however, and it starts just as the Win2k login screen comes up, hard drive just takes off <clickity, click, click> through loading my settings, and startup proggies...must be 30-40 seconds maybe more where you can't even access the system though the desktop is there.

 

Finally, it subsides and it's business as usual from there. What's this indexing about?

 

-AciD

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Indexing is an NTFS feature. The drive caches file information for faster access. It's not really needed on smaller drives so you have to enable it manually I think.

 

I've given up reinstalling. Now the problem comes and goes.

 

What kind of hardware do you have?

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I noticed this too, until I set the Indexing Service to Auto from Manual. My hard drive is an 9GB U2W/LVD. So try setting the Indexing service to Auto and see if that helps for your setup.

 

Also with a 9GB drive and 512MB of RAM does anyone know if a 1536 min and max value for the pagefile is a good optimium setting? or what do you recommend. thanks

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right on...set indexing to auto and the click-fest seems to have subsided.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

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-AciD

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Hardware:

BP6 running QQ Beta BIOS

Dual Celeron 366 @ 566MHZ

128MB Samsung -GL

IBM UDMA66 13.6g

WDC UDMA33 5.1g

Toshiba 32x

OTI Socrates 2x2x6x

V3-2000-AGP clocked @ 166

SB AWE64 Value

Hayes V90 Int. Spk Phone

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Software:

Win2K Pro Retail (2195)

Office 2000 Premium

NA ViruScan NT 4.03a

Mobo Monitor 4.10

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Maybe some kind of auto-defragmenting mechanism going on? I do realize this as well. But the disk activity wasn't very heavy, it blinks from time to time (approx 3 sec one blink). But doesn't quite bother me.

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