Hard Drive Keeps Spinning Down, Back up again

[Sam Casperson]

Hey all,

I've got a rather annoying problem. I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit and
every 30 seconds or so, one of my hard drives keeps spinning down, then sits
idle until it needs to use it again (usually within 30 seconds or so). The
whole system pauses while this is happening, and is getting pretty annoying.

So far I have uninstalled KB938979, which worked for a short while. Also, I
removed some registry keys relating to some Intel drives that I've heard
cause troubles. I can't remember which keys they were.

The problem didn't happen when I first installed Vista, or when it was
running XP. And I think it started when Microsoft brought out those
performance fixes.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
Sam.

 

[Bob]

Disable indexing and see if that solves your problem.