HDD???????????

[dwynnehugh]

My PC uses a SSD as ‘C’ drive and has a 1TB WD Black HDD (yes I know!!). The spinner contains my work and other important matters whilst the SSD is kept as clear as possible.

In the last few months (6++ probably)  when I want to access the HDD, it seems to take 15 seconds at least to get to speed and to become readable – a green bar runs across the top of the screen and once that is fully completed I can access the drive. The HDD is in the case and directly attached to the mobo.

Tests WD etc tend to indicate that there are no problems with it. No noise, no grinding or anything from it.

Can anyone suggest why it is doing this and is it en-route to HDD heaven?

Thanks, Dave

 

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[PlaneMan]

Could be the SATA cable or the SATA port playing silly buggers.

If you have spare ones swap them over, at least they are eliminated if the problem persists.

[Dave Rice]

No, it’s not a hardware problem its Windows reindexing – drives me nuts.

[PlaneMan]

I hardly use Windows these days, probably why my guess was a bit wide of the mark!

[Jukebox]

You should be able to turn indexing off on that drive and see if it makes any difference. In file explorer, right click on the HDD drive, select Properties and in the General tab untick ‘Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties’.

[D-Dan]

I point to Windows, too. I see it at work, but never at home (work is Win 10, home is Arch Linux)

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[dwynnehugh]

Thank you one and all, the solution suggested by Jukebox worked a treat thought it took a while to complete.  Response at this time seems quite speedy compared to what it was.

Thanks to you all,

Dave

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[Dave Rice]

God knows why it does it, but it does. If I change the order of the downloads folder from alphabetical to date (or back again) you can almost guarantee the next time I open it the green bar starts…

Just found a potential way to exclude the folder BRB.

EDIT Followed the instructions here and it seems to have worked, and how!

[wasbit]

Windows Defender also slows down the opening of large folders. It’s as if it’s forgotten the files are clean & has to check them again.

Turning off Defender for a few seconds really speeds things up.

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[Tippon]

Jukebox wrote:

You should be able to turn indexing off on that drive and see if it makes any difference.

This is one of those times where I really hate Windows. I reinstalled onto a new drive fairly recently, and you reminded me that I hadn’t turned off indexing. I did it on my storage drive, and an hour later it’s still chugging along. I minimised the dialogue box and found out why it’s taking so long – it found an error, but didn’t make any sort of sound and placed the notification behind the progress bar ?

 

[Ed P]

The Green Bar of Death came in with Windows 8 and got even worse when Cortana started. After de-indexing all my drives I now disable Windows Search in Services on every fresh install. I have noticed no impacts as I use a rational filing system.

Windows Photo is now my big hate but I have found no way to reliably eradicate this i/o cpu hog.

[dwynnehugh]

Ed P – thanks but I am still using W7 Ultimate – never bothered with W8 and can’t really say that I like W10.

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[Ed P]

dwynnehugh wrote:

Ed P – thanks but I am still using W7 Ultimate – never bothered with W8 and can’t really say that I like W10.

Correction – I think it was Vista that started Microsoft’s  nasty green bar of death search.

[dwynnehugh]

Hi again all,

Did as was suggested in the above answers – great – it worked!!

Not touched anything since and the bl**dy thing is back again!

 

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[Ed P]

Recent updates have reset settings!

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/60fdd642-6c2c-493b-887f-6213ca01cfd5/registry-keysentries-of-the-quotdefault-indexed-pathsquot-and-quotdefault-excluded?forum=w7itprogeneral

The above link is quite interesting if you fancy firing up regedit. Just a look wouldn’t hurt ?.

[Dave Rice]

Yep, my green bar is back plus I can’t access my NAS in File Explorer.

EDIT – just uninstalled KB4467702 and access to my network devices is back to normal.

[Dave Rice]

And of course it came back again before I got around to trying to stop it.

Microsoft says a specific update can be hidden and pointed me to wushowhide.digicab but that could find nothing to hide.

So I fired up Syspectr and the option was there, ticked the box and it seems to have gone. We’ll see.

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