hdd activity

Server 2012 R2 boots up, Please Wait appears for 15 minutes before allowing login.. The Hdd led is on constantly, keyboard unresponsive but Mouse ok Any one know of this issue and have any suggested solutions?

I'm not a intel fan so I know little about the Intel side of things but my son has a Q9300 system he simply uses to watch youtube video's & so forth. Anyways he's been having a few problems. At system start up to desktop everything appears normal visually until you try & do things. The mouse...

I have had Win 7 64bit installed on my C: Partition which contains System Files and Program Files. Data is stored on Partition E:. The System has functioned perfectly untill straight after installing updates on 16/02/2012.I believe some of these updates were: KB2660465, KB2645640, KB2654428 and...

I was regularly using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit with no problems what so ever from the OS until 2 days back. Since then, suddenly my laptop is taking a lot of time to boot, shutdown or hibernate- surprisingly no noticeable slow down while turning on from hibernation. Entering and exiting...

My PC takes approximately 90 seconds to boot! The HDD constantly reads/writes when windows has booted.My system:Win7x64, i7 920, gtx 560, 6 gig ram, Western digital 650 gig HDD, Asus p6 deluxe MB.

i've had some issues installing sp1 (7 ultimate, latest windows updates) via windows update when the installation fails on a few different error codes, but i have gotten it to install a few times. each time the installation finishes, i restart the computer when prompted and it goes through...

Hi everyone, first time post here so bear with me :) When I boot up my computer, it displays the animated windows7 logo as normal, but where it would normally display the login screen all I get is a blank screen with the mouse cursor. I've tried all keyboard shortcuts and random clicks to no...

Hi all. I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64bit. This is my rig: CPU: Intel E8500 @ 3.45GHz (OC) RAM: OCZ Titanium 2x2GB @ 1152MHz FSB432x8.0 MB: Gigabyte EX38-DS4 (BIOS F3) GPU: ATI Palit 4870 1GB Dual Edition I have WD HDD 500GB Sata2 and WD HDD 160GB Sata1 for my videos and music only. The main HDD...

I installed Windows 7 Professional without problems, including updating all my drivers. After loading the basic operating system I noticed, as part of the boot-up process, following the 4 colour moving Microsoft logo, there then follows exactly 60 seconds of blank screen, followed by the final...

New to the forum, thought I try a new thread to see if I get some help. I'll continue to search the forum for this too. I had Vista 64 bit home premium and decided to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional, didn't realize it wasn't just a simple upgrade until I started the install and had to do...

Hello, i installed windows 7 and i have very often hdd activity when there is not a single program running. I have allready disabled several services (including superfetch) but the system still is accessing my hdd all the time. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (fresh install). What can i do to...

Hi First time poster. I am trying to upgrade idealy from vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit. My pc is well up to spec. i even uninstalled all software recommended by the adviser. I bought windows 7 home upgrade on saturday, I have been trying since to install it. About 20 attempts so far...

Here's my situation: I have a Gateway T-6836 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A couple days ago I installed PCLinuxOS on the primary drive, partitioning about 60 GB of the drive for the Linux file system, the rest reserved for Windows (250 GB total HDD capacity). After successfully...