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    hard drive thrashing after you wake your computer? it may be readyboost!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by 000111, Sep 30, 2007.

  1. 000111

    000111 Atari Master

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    hey all. when i woke my 1520 from sleep (even with hybrid sleep disabled), the hard drive seemed to thrash forever.

    i did some research, and it seems this is because vista rewrites the entire readyboost cache when you wake your computer.

    i turned off readyboost before sleeping the computer- and no more thrashing for minutes on end when i woke it up!

    you think they would have designed vista so the computer could detect whether you had altered the readyboost drive contents while the computer was asleep, but i guess not. vista assumes it needs to rewrite your entire readyboost cache!

    so, if you are sick of your hard drive thrashing when you wake up your computer, turn off readyboost before you put your computer to sleep.
     
    000111, Sep 30, 2007
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  2. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

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    This bug has been noted by Microsoft and the fix is going to be bundled with SP1.
     
    knightingmagic, Sep 30, 2007
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