Vista and hard drive query?

[harris1986]

ok guys this is nothing major but i am a perfectionist

i have vista x64 Home premium running on my rig in sig, and i have my 36gb raptor as the os drive and my 250gb seagate 7200.10 for storage of everything else.

sometimes when i try accessing a folder that's in my seagate's hard drive it takes a couple of seconds to spin up and kind of get a mini screen hold? is this normal or is it something within vista that kind of puts the hard drive that's not being used on standby?

 

[andshrew]

The default power scheme for Vista does turn off the hard discs after a certain amount of inactivity. You can adjust it to your needs by typing 'power options' into the start menu, then click change plan settings.

 

[Pukk@pie]

ok guys this is nothing major but i am a perfectionist

i have vista x64 Home premium running on my rig in sig, and i have my 36gb raptor as the os drive and my 250gb seagate 7200.10 for storage of everything else.

sometimes when i try accessing a folder that's in my seagate's hard drive it takes a couple of seconds to spin up and kind of get a mini screen hold? is this normal or is it something within vista that kind of puts the hard drive that's not being used on standby?

I had the same prob, my 2nd hard drive would sometimes spin up during games and cause it to hang for a short time. I tried changing the power options but that still didn't fix it. My solution was (after a lot of frustration) to uninstall Vista 64 update KB938979, now back to normal.

Try the power options first as mentioned by andshrew, if that dont work, unistall KB938979.

 

[harris1986]

ok will give it a shot, thanks guys