Hard Drive Parking

Posted: 06-07-2007, 12:19 AM

Shirley Daugherty

Guest
Posts: n/a

I have been using Windows XP since day one. I have never had this condition
using XP. I installed Vista over the weekend and when the system reboots for
driver installs ect. the hard drive heads return to the parked position. You
can hear it distinctly. It only happens when using Vista and not XP. I
installed Vista to get an idea of what hardware and software I would need to
replace in order to use Vista. The hardware was just about everything I had
and the software was also. I installed the latest Vista drivers from each
manufacturer. Keep in mind this is a homebuild system only one year old.
Opteron 175, 2gb OCZ Ram, Asus motherboard, Nvidia Video card, 3 Maxtor
drives, Plextor DVD burner. Dell 2407 WFP display. Performance Rating of 4.6
due to video card. Since I couldn't use Vista as I would have liked, I
reinstalled XP and the hard drive heads are not parking on reboot. Until I
get this resolved I cannot use Vista under any circumstances although I
would love to. Does anyone have any idea what is going on. Thanks

Responses to "Hard Drive Parking"

Rock

Guest
Posts: n/a

Re: Hard Drive Parking

Posted: 06-07-2007, 06:20 AM

"Shirley Daugherty" wrote

>I have been using Windows XP since day one. I have never had this condition
> using XP. I installed Vista over the weekend and when the system reboots
> for
> driver installs ect. the hard drive heads return to the parked position.
> You
> can hear it distinctly. It only happens when using Vista and not XP. I
> installed Vista to get an idea of what hardware and software I would need
> to
> replace in order to use Vista. The hardware was just about everything I
> had
> and the software was also. I installed the latest Vista drivers from each
> manufacturer. Keep in mind this is a homebuild system only one year old.
> Opteron 175, 2gb OCZ Ram, Asus motherboard, Nvidia Video card, 3 Maxtor
> drives, Plextor DVD burner. Dell 2407 WFP display. Performance Rating of
> 4.6
> due to video card. Since I couldn't use Vista as I would have liked, I
> reinstalled XP and the hard drive heads are not parking on reboot. Until I
> get this resolved I cannot use Vista under any circumstances although I
> would love to. Does anyone have any idea what is going on. Thanks

See the replies to your identical post in another Vista newsgroup. When
posting to more than one group please crosspost, sending one message to all
groups at the same time, rather than multiposting, sending separate messages
to each newsgroup.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display Modes

« nvmcp.sys bluescreens | Windows Experience Index drops after adding RAM »

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads You may post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Hard Drives Parking Heads	Hanspuppa	Windows Vista Hardware & Devices	2	06-06-2007 10:37 PM
Setting Hard Disk Active and Partitioning the hard drive	The Legend	Windows XP Accessibility	1	01-16-2004 12:46 AM
installing a 2nd hard drive and possibly 3rd hard drive	Bill F.	Windows XP Hardware	0	08-18-2003 03:49 PM
Transferring Settings from One Hard Drive to New Hard Drive	hagen007	Windows XP New Users	0	08-09-2003 07:41 PM
why is the primary hard drive my E: drive not C: drive after winxp clean install	Trevor	Windows XP Hardware	3	07-23-2003 08:16 PM

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90