weird things going on with my HDD

linkin

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Okay, so after CSS froze up on me, i rebooted to find windows installing hardware. it installed an SCSI driver my HDD. but my HDD is SATA and now there is this annoying "safely remove hardware" icon in my tray all the time, with my HDD listed there. This is also after (finally) getting windows update to work and install the latest updates. i didn't restart after installing them, but i did when CSS crashed. could this be the problem? It's not that this worries me, but my drive is clearly SATA and not SCSI. I want to get rid of that hardware icon as well. how do i do that?
 

2048Megabytes

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You tried using System Restore to put your Windows back to a date previous to the install of the new software?

System Restore is under the following:

Start -->Programs -->Accessories -->System Tools -->System Restore
 

linkin

VIP Member
Nah, it's all good. just odd that it says my drive scsi and is "removable" when it is sata and i doubt it is removable. And besides, i disabled system restore and such :) My vista runs with only 46 processes.

Maybe it's because windows update installed some nvidia raid drivers? I think that is the culprit.
 

2048Megabytes

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Disabling System Restore will not reduce the number of running processes. What I do believe disabling System Restore does is keep Vista from automatically creating a System Restore point. If you do decide to do this, create a System Restore point manually at least once a week.

(My Vista is running 41 processes presently).
 

linkin

VIP Member
I just use nero backitup that came with my optical drive :) no sense in wasting HDD space for system restore and shadow copies! MY programs, games and windows is only using 40gb or so. thats 5 games, programs and windows ;)
 

linkin

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Okay, another issue that happens occasionally. when using the computer heavily (eg downloading, browsing and alt+tabbed out of a game) sometimes my HDD will stop. like completely stop spinning, after waiting ~30 seconds it comes clean and everything unfreezes. Speedfan shows a warning about my HDD in smart data, something along the lines of spin up time. should i be worried?

Speedfan says:

Spin up time: 182

Worst: 19

Warn: 21

followed by this: 000000000F3C
 

2048Megabytes

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If none of these problems started happening before the software update happened with your operating system I would try to restore Windows to the state it was before the update.
 

2048Megabytes

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Overclocking can cause system instability. I prefer system stability over a little extra performance which is why I don't even attempt overclocking.
 

linkin

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well i lowered my overclock a tiny bit and it's all good now. still detecting my sata hdd as an scsi though.
 

chey

New Member
Your Windows can detect SATA controller as a SCSI controller, this is on my computer and on my neighbour's one. Sometimes it might also be disconnected through the "Safety Remove Hardware" icon.
 

linkin

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Well that's what has happened. I restarted after updates, and it installed the a driver for my HDD and tells me it's SCSI and there's a safely remove hardware icon there now.

I believe an update i installed was for the JMicron RAID chip on my mobo, so my guess is that that is the culprit.
 
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