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Hard drive light flashing
My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is
reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE
device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
Thank you, Jeff.
My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
Open Control Panel then System then Device Manager.
Expand the CDROM item and double click the CD device. Select Settings. If Auto-insert notification is checked then the system will regularly check to see if a new disk has been inserted into the drive. Each time it checks, the hard drive activity light will flash. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... Thank you, Jeff. My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
As Jeff replied, look in Device Manager CDROM category double-click the CD drive;
then select the Settings tab. Uncheck "Auto-insert notification", click OK all the way out, and reboot. You will not have any CD autorun with this disabled, but you should try it as a test to see if the hard drive light flashing stops with this unchecked. Try it with each of the hard drives set as the boot drive, adjusting the setting in each copy of Windows when active. Jeff states: "Each time it checks, the hard drive activity light will flash." I have found this to sometimes but NOT ALWAYS be the case, but more common on older hardware. If this does not have any effect on the flashing light, you may as a next step want to compare the startup axis on each copy of Windows to see if they are in fact identical in what is loaded at startup. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... Thank you, Jeff. My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
Thank you, Jeff.
Auto Insert Notification was the reason. Once I unchecked the box, the problem disappeared. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
Auto Insert Notification was the reason. Once I unchecked the box, the
problem disappeared. Thank you for your help! Satish "glee" wrote: As Jeff replied, look in Device Manager CDROM category double-click the CD drive; then select the Settings tab. Uncheck "Auto-insert notification", click OK all the way out, and reboot. You will not have any CD autorun with this disabled, but you should try it as a test to see if the hard drive light flashing stops with this unchecked. Try it with each of the hard drives set as the boot drive, adjusting the setting in each copy of Windows when active. Jeff states: "Each time it checks, the hard drive activity light will flash." I have found this to sometimes but NOT ALWAYS be the case, but more common on older hardware. If this does not have any effect on the flashing light, you may as a next step want to compare the startup axis on each copy of Windows to see if they are in fact identical in what is loaded at startup. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... Thank you, Jeff. My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
Well, I did apply the condition that Windows had to think there was a device
connected that didn't support the media change signal. That would typically be an older device, or perhaps a device installed without its correct drivers. Also, now that Satish has found out what it is, I'm not sure that the best option would, in fact, be to turn it off. It may be a bit worrying when you don't know about it, but it's actually harmless. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "glee" wrote in message ... snip Jeff states: "Each time it checks, the hard drive activity light will flash." I have found this to sometimes but NOT ALWAYS be the case, but more common on older hardware. If this does not have any effect on the flashing light, you may as a next step want to compare the startup axis on each copy of Windows to see if they are in fact identical in what is loaded at startup. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... Thank you, Jeff. My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. |
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Hard drive light flashing
"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
... Well, I did apply the condition that Windows had to think there was a device connected that didn't support the media change signal. That would typically be an older device, or perhaps a device installed without its correct drivers. Yes, I saw your conditional response. :-) Even a cloned copy of Windows can see the optical drive differently than the original copy in that respect due to some of the dynamic aspects of hardware enumeration on boot, I suppose. Also, now that Satish has found out what it is, I'm not sure that the best option would, in fact, be to turn it off. It may be a bit worrying when you don't know about it, but it's actually harmless. I agree, and that's why I stated he should try it as a "test" to see if it was the cause, rather than as a permanent solution. I would prefer to leave Auto-insert Notification on, even if I had tweaked any Autorun setting to off. I don't know if Satish caught the implication of my using the word "test". Some folks just hate to see that activity LED working. ;-) "glee" wrote in message ... snip Jeff states: "Each time it checks, the hard drive activity light will flash." I have found this to sometimes but NOT ALWAYS be the case, but more common on older hardware. If this does not have any effect on the flashing light, you may as a next step want to compare the startup axis on each copy of Windows to see if they are in fact identical in what is loaded at startup. "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... Thank you, Jeff. My technical skill level is low. Could you please tell me how I check the configuration of CD devices? Please note that the way I created this new drive is by copying the files from the old drive. Everything should be identical on the two drives. The only thing that is different is that I installed Windows 98 again using the original windows 98 CD-ROM. If configuration of CD devices is a part of Windows install, then the two drives may have different configuration. Regards, Satish "Jeff Richards" wrote: The usual reason for this blinking is that Windows thinks there is an IDE device (such as some CD-ROM drives) that does not support the media change signal, so it checks the IDE devices every few seconds to see if it needs to report that the disk has been changed. You say it doesn't happen with the other hard drive, and it seems from your description that you are therefore running a different operating system. See if there is a difference in the configuration of the CD devices, where one is set to detect media changes and one is not. "Satish Gupta" wrote in message ... My hard drive light flashes every few seconds as if the computer is reading/writing. I have read responses to similar questions, but think my problem is different. Here are the facts. I copied contents of one of my drives to a different drive, including reinstall of Win 98 on this second drive. When I make the new drive the master and the old the slave, I have this problem. It does not happen with my old drive. This happens even when I am not on the internet or doing anything else at all. Thanks. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm |
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