The hard drive is working constantly because Vista is indexing the
drive. It should stop after a few days, depending on how many files you
have. It makes searches a lot faster. But, initially, you will notice a
lot of hard drive activity.

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Dustin Harper
[email]dharper@vistarip.com[/email]
[url]http://www.vistarip.com[/url]


Sid wrote:[color=blue]
> I need some answers to a question, actually an answer or opinion. I have a
> dual boot machine XP/Vista Home Prem. , This is a pretty fast machine with
> plenty of horsepower to run Vista. Gigabyte Mobo, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ chip,
> 4gb OCZ 800mhz. RAM, plenty of cooling and I'm not overclocking the processor
> or anything like that. During system IDLE the HD light is constantly flashing
> and I can hear it reading the HD. I have a IDE 160GB primary HD cut in half
> and each partition has plenty of extra space after all software was
> installed. A secondary SATA 300mbs 320 GB drive for DATA. It did not do this
> after I initially installed both systems and got them up and running using
> Vistas boot manager with Vista as the default.
> I just need to know where to start looking. I have had this problem before
> but only when I did not have enough system resources on the HD or RAM when I
> had a dual boot OS/2 / Windows 95 machine long ago. OS/2 was just too much
> for it and it constantly read the HD, I assume reading and writing to the
> sys.pagefile due to lack of enough memory.
> Anyone know where to start looking with this much information? If you need
> to know all of the software installed I can get that together with no problem.
> Thanks In Advance for the help, Sid
> [email]saxonsystems@comcast.net[/email][/color]