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.
Last edited by I2aMpAnT; 11 Jan 2009 at 16:58.
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 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 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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