hard drive issue

G

Guest

I need your help please. I just clean install Vista Ultimate on new drive WD
Raptor and sees like this drive never stop working constantly is searching
the indication HDD light is constantly on. I have look for any I check the
start up folder I don’t see anything usual, I was looking into running
services but I’m afraid I mite mess it up.
Any suggestions.
Thanks
Tom
 
M

Malke

TOM said:
I need your help please. I just clean install Vista Ultimate on new drive WD
Raptor and sees like this drive never stop working constantly is searching
the indication HDD light is constantly on. I have look for any I check the
start up folder I don’t see anything usual, I was looking into running
services but I’m afraid I mite mess it up.
Any suggestions.
Thanks
Tom

This is caused by Vista's Indexing Service. It is busy indexing your
drive and it will stop soon.


Malke
 
G

Guest

Thanks Malke
But this is going on for the second day, how long this process should take?
I did not have this issue with XP i.
 
R

Rock

TOM said:
Thanks Malke
But this is going on for the second day, how long this process should
take?
I did not have this issue with XP i.

Indexing is different in Vista. It can take some time to create the initial
index.
 
R

Richard Urban

I would not count out the fact that you may still be contaminated, even
though you have found nothing. There are many types of malware that will
bring a system to it's knees.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



dlk888 said:
TOM said:
Thank you Rock

Rock said:
Thanks Malke
But this is going on for the second day, how long this process should
take?
I did not have this issue with XP i.

:

TOM wrote:
I need your help please. I just clean install Vista Ultimate on
new
drive WD
Raptor and sees like this drive never stop working constantly is
searching
the indication HDD light is constantly on. I have look for any I
check
the
start up folder I don’t see anything usual, I was looking into
running
services but I’m afraid I mite mess it up.
Any suggestions.
Thanks
Tom


This is caused by Vista's Indexing Service. It is busy indexing your
drive and it will stop soon.

Indexing is different in Vista. It can take some time to create the
initial
index.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

um....SOME TIME?!?! if i was told that it would take over 7 days of
non-stop hard drive activity i would not have bothered with vista! I
have right clicked on my c drive and un-checked the box for "index
drive for faster searching" so that the "indexing" stops....but it is
still going on after a week! I have had my computer running vista for
over 2 months before this was happening. Why does it suddenly feel the
need to make everything run slow? I have some friends who have not
experienced this at all! I have run virus scans with multiple programs
and the only thing that seems to stop it from happening is starting up
task manager and end process for the largest svchost.exe usually
between 57 - 72,000KB and it does nothing to the system but stop the
hard drive....but not for long...after a while it starts up again...can
someone please tell me whats going on? why would no one tell us of
this? and how do i make it stop!?
 

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