About this tag
The Ultrastar tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about Hitachi Ultrastar hard drives, particularly the 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 model. Users report issues with Windows 10 misidentifying the HDD as an SSD, causing slow system performance and problems with disk defragmentation tools. The tag also includes troubleshooting for Windows 7 where Ultrastar software (a karaoke game) runs slowly, consuming high CPU usage, with no improvement from processor affinity or compatibility settings. These threads focus on hardware recognition, driver or system configuration issues, and performance optimization for both storage devices and software applications.
  1. Bear

    Windows 10 Can't recognize HDD as HDD

    Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...
    • Bear
    • Thread
    • 3tb 850 evo bios boot order cloning defrag disk issues drive recognition hdd hitachi operating system performance issues ssd storage system load uefi ultrastar windows 10
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  2. R

    Windows 7 Windows 7 running programs slowly

    I'm having a problem I can't seem to find a solution to. All of the Visual C++ based software that I try and run such as Frets on Fire, Ultrastar or Phun all stutter and chew up 50% of the processor time evn when they are idle. I've tried it on both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions and they both...
    • rathan47
    • Thread
    • bit version compatibility cpu affinity dual core frets on fire frustration idle performance phun processor running settings software stuttering system troubleshooting ultrastar update visual c++ windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support