Hard Drive never idle.... 1

[deevaetodin]

I am running Windows 98SE using a 15GB Quantum Fireball harddrive.

The problem I am getting is that it when the operating system is idel the hard drive starts reading and/or writing.

I have monitored all currently open applications and even ended all but the explorer/systray application.

Why is the hard drive still reading/writing when applications are idle. Note that as soon as I initiate activity in the operating system (e.g. using the mouse) it stops to respond to all requests.

What's going on?

Thanks in advance for all help.

 

[cdogg]

Windows 98/98SE/ME operating systems incorporate what Microsoft deems as "advanced" memory management over the predecessor Win95. However, you'll notice that hard disk will thrash a lot less on the older OS.

Here's a tweak you can try. If it doesn't make a difference, then you can always go back:

- open system.ini in notepad
- under the section [386Enh], add the line ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
- exit saving your changes and reboot

if the problem continues, undo your changes and post back


~cdogg

 

[deevaetodin]

I'll give it a shot.

Thanks.

 

[cdogg]

Also, you can try this:

- right-click My computer, click Properties, then go to the Performance tab
- click File System
- under the first tab, Hard Disk, change the typical role of this computer to "Network Server"

* this will let windows cache 40KB, which is used to store 64 most recently accessed folders and 2,729 most recently accessed files