Laptop With Slow Disk Access?
May 9, 2011
I"ve got a several month old Toshiba X505 870 with I5-720CPU, 4GB of memory and TWO Hitachi 7200 rpm 500GB SATA II hard drives. The system is used primarily for initial examination of digital images, with each image being around 20MB (so we're not talking big files). Accessing images to display previews is perceptibly slow. Yes, the system is tuned to the best of my ability, although I'm certainly open to other tuning things I've missed or just don't know. Both disks have been, and are REGULARLY defragmented - both show 0% fragmentation. I've thrown away the original O/S with all the trialware, stupidity, and goop, and installed Windows 7 Home Premius, 64-bit. All the drivers I'm aware of are current, including the Intel storage drivers. Other than the periodic Side-By-Side errors that show up every couple days, I'm NOT getting application or system errors. Both disks are set to the setting for best performance (I can't recall the wording but something like write-delay or whatever)...
In Bridge or Lightroom I"m not getting CPU bound, but this thing beats on the disk(s) quite a bit, and takes MUCH longer than the desktop system to display images. Admittedly, "MUCH LONGER" is probably between .5 and 2 seconds, but it's still a LOT longer than my desktop takes to display the same previews. The desktop is a slightly faster CPU (I7 920), but it also has standard 7200 rpm drives for images, and it's SIGNIFICANTLY faster at retrieving and displaying images in Bridge or Lightroom...Is there any PRACTICAL (no, putting in 2, 500GB SSD drives is not practical) way to speed up disk access on this laptop?
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Jan 1, 2011
I've just installed Win 7 Home premium in my PC. OS on SSD and attached a 1TB WD hdisk for storage. File access, eg .. transfer, copy, delete to and from the hdisk etc... are really very slow. My previous PC running on XP no such problem. However,there is no such issue with the SSD. I'm very new to Win 7.
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I thought it might be hardware related (it is a new computer) so I ran one of those linux live discs on my new machine - and again got good results - whilst when I returned to windows - I get poor speeds again. So this leads me to think it is not a hardware or a wireless network issue. (Linux wasnt running as much stuff as win 7 was). What is especially frustrating is sometimes it works fine on windows and sometimes it doesnt - and there doesnt seem to be any obvious cause. Also since it keeps fluctuating its very hard to tell if what you do is fixing it - or if its just naturally reverted back to normal. Further - sometimes I can be getting half my normal expected speed (4 mbps) but as I dont use that much bandwidth I wont notice until it drops below 2.nd in what may be a completely different issue sometimes I will get zero downloads speed (but wireless strength remains high) - if I go to system config and type "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" this "seems" to fix this issue - but not the slow speed issueIts my first win 7 computer.
Its a samsung RV511 with Windows 7 home premium (64 bit edition) Norton security preinstalled. I have installed chrome and 3ds max. I have installed all the windows updates and all my hardware drivers are up to date. I am connecting to the internet through a wireless router. I set it up initially as a home network - tried changing settings to "work" didnt seem to do anything.
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Am I supposed to know what this username and password is? Did I create a username and password while not paying attention?
I've turned off password protected sharing in advanced sharing settings, turned on file and print sharing, both computers are joined to WORKGROUP. I went through the file sharing setup wizard on Windows 7 which spat out a password at the end but like so what? There's no username to go with it and it doesn't work if you enter that password from Xp anyway.
Can someone please put me on the right track here?
I hope that MS realise that there's an ocean of idiots like me that just want to copy a file from PC A to PC B at home and that the wizard should set all this up for us and not make us google around for half an hour just to find out how to copy a file from box to box. Unless it's intentionally not backward compatible?
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Mar 30, 2012
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Apr 15, 2011
I have this problem that I've been trying to diagnose for a month or so. It's proving difficult. The problem has been happing since around February this year.The computer build is over 1 year old.Every few hours, I get constant disk access for approximately 3 mins. I don't have a virus, it doesn't match a schedule & I don't have much hair left. During the disk access (the pc disk light is on constantly), I can move the mouse, but nothing responds to a disk read/write for several minutes. The clock still runs & the CPU % is very low.I assumed it was the hard drive & bought Spinrite as a last test as the drive had passed chkdsk constantly. Spinrite found no problem at all, not a single fault despite running it for about 12 hours on a maintenance run.
Here's an idea of the erratic schedule:Day 1 freeze 16:00, 19.37Day 2 freeze 09:12, 15:11Day 3 freeze 10:16, 12:06, 13:30Day 4 freeze 11:14, 13.08, 14.24I try running resource monitor with the disk page up, but am finding it hard to diagnose the problem from it. Anything that shows up in disk monitor, I disable & try another test for a day. have disabled (one at a time):Prevx, Acronis backup, desktop gadgets, search indexing, Skype, Google update.I have installed the latest nic & graphics drivers. I have the latest chipset drivers & BIOS.Full virus scans with Prevx, Malwarebytes. No malware symptoms[CODE]
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Oct 1, 2011
I have a WD Green drive which parks its heads after 8 seconds of inactivity. This is measured by "load/unload cycle count" in SMART, and WD rates the drive for 300,000 cycles. I have accumulated over 15,000 in the span of a few days, which obviously isn't good for drive longevity. I don't have a way to run the tool provided by WD to alter the timeout for the heads, so I need to figure out what is causing this frequent disk access. Prior to whenever this started (I'm assuming it was a few days ago, when I installed a new motherboard) I was averaging 0-10 load/unload cycles per day, depending on how often I accessed the drive.I checked activity with Resource Monitor and found nothing accessing the drive except for the very occasional access of BCD.log and the MFT. However, I'm seeing ~3-6 load/unload cycles per minute, so something is accessing the drive every 8-20 seconds.
I tried using procmon. I set it to filter only for activity on E: (the drive in question) and I unchecked all the default "exclude" filters; I saw nothing besides procmon accessing the drive. I ran it for a good 5 minutes.The drive is connected to an Intel Z68 SATA II controller. I have no other drives which park their heads so I don't know if this activity occurs on all my drives or not. Again, nothing shows in procmon or Resource monitor. What can I do to see what's accessing the drive?Tried so far:Disabling SuperfetchDisabling AV
Disabling Indexing
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Configuration:
O/S: OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840 Processor, 3200 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date:Award Software International, Inc. F13, 8/31/2010
SSD:Microcenter SSD G2 series 64GB ATA Device
HDD:Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 ATA Device (1TB)
RAM:8GB
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I saved my music and other files into local disk d. When I copy the file from this disc to removable disc, there is one comment will appear like your access is denied.
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Apr 28, 2011
from last 1 month my laptop is getting too hot, even when watching a movie on media player alone, i don't know if there are some programs which are causing it to process more and more which makes my laptop slow at the same time and along with becoming hot
here is the hijackthis log
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 6:54:54 PM, on 28-Apr-11
Platform: Windows 7 SP1 (WinNT 6.00.3505)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.8112.16421)
Boot mode: Normal
[code]....
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Nov 9, 2012
my computer(laptop) is realy slow. example it took me 3minutes to get this page to load.please help me to make my laptop fast and keep all my files
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Dec 23, 2009
Lately My laptop has been going slow, I don't Know why and very hard to manage it exemple if I want to open my computer i Need to wait Like 10 secs or more while when on vista it was like 3 secs (same for windows 7 when I installed it) but Now I need alot of time and my CPU keeps Loading I don't know why even when i am not doing anything. Someone suggested that I put something to cool it down but it didn't work so far for me.
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Aug 13, 2012
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Jan 24, 2012
I don't know if this is a harware issue with my SSD, disk controller (motherboard), power supply or something else, but depending on what I'm doing, the computer will operate for a few minutes then freeze and eventually reboot itself. When it reboots, I get the "Bootmgr is Missing" message until I cycle power a couple of times. I've tried booting from the Windows 7 repair disk and typing "bootrec /fixboot", but the problem eventually returns.I can't get a full image update from Acronis because it hangs in the middle of the image, even if I say to ignore bad sectors. If I run the HDTune diagnostic on the SSD, it seems to always stop after about 3 minutes and always in the same spot, at 15,432MB. Is this a problem with the SSD or the disk controller?
Configuration:
O/S: OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840 Processor, 3200 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date:Award Software International, Inc. F13, 8/31/2010
SSD:Microcenter SSD G2 series 64GB ATA Device
HDD:Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 ATA Device (1TB)
RAM:8GB
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Aug 10, 2011
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.1
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium , Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7550 @ 2.26GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Processor Count: 2
RAM: 4063 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 , 1024 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 464057 MB, Free - 388896 MB; D: Total - 12877 MB, Free - 2026 MB;
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 3624, 18.50, CNF9242090
Antivirus: Kaspersky Internet Security, Updated and Enabled
The computes is running slow, i have scanned with spybot, kaspersky, ARO 2011 registry cleaner. I don't know how to test memory? don't know what to do from here?? I have defragged hard drive.
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