Taking a LONG time to list drive root

[Jamie Furlong]

Tried searching KB. Defragged. Scandisked. Not low on space.

But suddenly, it's often taking a LONG time (like a minute sometimes) to
list a drive.
Even external drives to it sometimes, all accompianied by much thrashing of
the disk.

Again, I've done a "proper" boot time defrag with Diskkeeper, I've got a gig
of Ram and pagefile is on Auto.

Any idea? Thanks

 

[dB]

Maybe cycling your
index service will help.

Another clue as to whether
or not is a problem with the
o.s. is to observe that issue
in safemode and see if there
is a difference.
Tried searching KB. Defragged. Scandisked. Not low on space.

But suddenly, it's often taking a LONG time (like a minute sometimes) to
list a drive.
Even external drives to it sometimes, all accompianied by much thrashing of
the disk.

Again, I've done a "proper" boot time defrag with Diskkeeper, I've got a gig
of Ram and pagefile is on Auto.

Any idea? Thanks

 

[Malke]

Tried searching KB. Defragged. Scandisked. Not low on space.

But suddenly, it's often taking a LONG time (like a minute sometimes) to
list a drive.
Even external drives to it sometimes, all accompianied by much thrashing of
the disk.

Again, I've done a "proper" boot time defrag with Diskkeeper, I've got a gig
of Ram and pagefile is on Auto.

Any idea? Thanks

Check to see if the drive is in PIO Mode instead of DMA. See MVP
Hans-Georg Michna's page and fix about this issue here:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm


Malke

 

[Jamie Furlong]

Maybe cycling your index service will help.

It's been disabled and turned off since I heard about the trouble it causes!

Check to see if the drive is in PIO Mode instead of DMA. See MVP
Hans-Georg Michna's page and fix about this issue here:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

UDMA Mode 5, currently

 

[dB]

actually, it needs to be
enabled.

however, sometimes
it crashes due to the "namespace"
key error.

try it and
see what the results are.

Maybe cycling your index service will help.

It's been disabled and turned off since I heard about the trouble it causes!

Check to see if the drive is in PIO Mode instead of DMA. See MVP
Hans-Georg Michna's page and fix about this issue here:

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

UDMA Mode 5, currently

 

[Rock]

Response inline:

actually, it needs to be
enabled.

Why does the indexing service need to be enabled? XP systems operate just
fine without it running.

however, sometimes
it crashes due to the "namespace"
key error.

try it and
seewhat the results are.

Maybe cycling your index service will help.

"Jamie Furlong" wrote