Low Hard Drive Scores on Windows Experience Index

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  1. Posts : 246
    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
       #1

    Low Hard Drive Scores on Windows Experience Index


    Anybody who has drastically lower scores for their Windows 7 WEI than they did for Vista's WEI, please post your Specs Here. Specifically your HDD's specs and your mainboard.


    EDIT- Why is this post marked as solved when it is most certainly solved?


    This seems to work on most cases, however it is a risk.
    Joe said:
    To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

    1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
    2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
    3. Right click your main drive and select properties
    4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
    5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI
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    Last edited by I2aMpAnT; 11 Jan 2009 at 16:58.
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  2. Posts : 21
    windows 7 64bit
       #2

    HDD score 2.9
    MB: MSI P35 neo2
    HD: Maxtor IDE 100GB
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  3. Joe
    Posts : 236
    Windows 7 RC
       #3

    To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

    1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
    2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
    3. Right click your main drive and select properties
    4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
    5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI
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  4. Posts : 246
    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Joe said:
    To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

    1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
    2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
    3. Right click your main drive and select properties
    4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
    5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI
    Rescanning now...
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  5. Posts : 501
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64
       #5

    This setting improves performance, but a power outage or hardware failure may result in data loss, so I would strongly recommend a UPS (power backup supply).

    HD score 3.0
    Seagates 3X500GB RAID 0
    Mobo evga 780i
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  6. Posts : 246
    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #6

    grimreaper said:
    This setting improves performance, but a power outage or hardware failure may result in data loss, so I would strongly recommend a UPS (power backup supply).

    HD score 3.0
    Seagates 3X500GB RAID 0
    Mobo evga 780i

    I too have an EVGA board and Seagate drives....coincidence?
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  7. Posts : 246
    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Joe said:
    To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

    1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
    2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
    3. Right click your main drive and select properties
    4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
    5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

    This did not work, still a 3.0
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  8. Posts : 21
    windows 7 64bit
       #8

    Thanks Joe. That did increase my WEI score from 2.9 to 5.4.
    I guess I need to re-enable the write catch after the test, right?

    Joe said:
    To increase your Windows 7 Beta HDD WEI score (in many systems):

    1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
    2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
    3. Right click your main drive and select properties
    4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
    5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI
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  9. Posts : 51
    windows 7 6.1 build 7068x64
       #9

    Same here no go hmm...
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  10. Posts : 154
    Windows 7 Build 7100
       #10

    I also had a low score (2.9) on my SATA2 Seagate Barracuda's 7200 rpm. I thought it was a bit low so I tried what you said and disabled the writing cache. re-running now.
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