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Discussions about SCSI drives on WindowsForum.com often involve troubleshooting performance issues and installation problems. Users report Windows 7 freezing with 100% active time on SCSI hard drives, such as the WD EADS model, with no clear solution from disabling Superfetch. Others face difficulties during fresh Windows 7 installations when the system fails to detect the SCSI drive, leading to boot failures and safe mode hangs. These threads highlight common SCSI drive challenges in legacy Windows environments, focusing on driver detection and disk activity bottlenecks.
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 freezes: Highest Active Time 100%

    I have bought Packard Bell IXtreme X8211 (M3720). It has Quad CPU with 4Gig RAM. Very frequently it freezes for up to 30 seconds. I have notice in Resource Monitor that the Highest Active Time is 100% every time it freezes. The system has a WD EADS SCSI hard drive. It started this after...
    • palm6080
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    • active time computer issues freezes hard drive multi-core packard bell performance performance issues quad core ram resource monitor scsi drive superfetch system freeze tech support troubleshooting user experience user solutions windows 7
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Dell Precision 670 running Win7 won't boot after memory upgrade

    My Dell Precision 670 will not boot Windows 7 after upgrading the memory to 8GB. Configuration follows: *BIOS A06 *2 x 4GB SIMMS in slots 1 and 2. These are correct WS670/4GB PC3200 EEC registered modules as recommended. *memory fan is installed *3 SCSI drives with Adaptec 7901 RAID...
    • liongate
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    • bios boot issues boot repair compatibility computer dell dual boot error hardware memory test os installation precision 670 raid controller ram upgrade scsi drive troubleshooting windows 7 x64
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Problems with fresh install of W7:Ult

    OK so I'm trying to go a fresh install on my workstation (info below). I was able to boot to the DVD and the installation seemed to go fine (on the sata drive, for some reason the computer doesn't detect the scsi drive). But when windows tries to boot for the first time the computer restarts...
    • SpeedySpeedBoy
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    • agp driver bios settings boot issues computer setup data recovery driver issues graphics hard drive installation intel xeon memory nvidia restart safe mode scsi drive troubleshooting uefi windows 7 workstation
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Win 7 not recognizing SATA drive when XP does on same PC

    I have XP Pro (32bit) on my C partition (Disk 1), Win 7 32 bit on my F partition (Disk 2) , both are SCSI drives. I also have two WD sata drives 120gb and 640gb. XP recognizes all drives, win7 does not recognize the 640gb hard drive. Suggestions please (in addition to uninstall Win 7...
    • SSR
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    • drive recognition dual boot hard drive sata drive scsi drive storage issues troubleshooting wd drive windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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